Textual thesaurus for "precarious"

(adj) unstable

affording no ease or reassurance

a precarious truce

(adj) perilous, parlous, touch-and-go

fraught with danger

dangerous waters; a parlous journey on stormy seas; a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat; the precarious life of an undersea diver; dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery

(adj) shaky

not secure; beset with difficulties

a shaky marriage