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| Main Entry: | precarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tricky, doubtful |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate, dicey*, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hairy*, hazardous, iffy*, indecisive, insecure, loaded, open, out on a limb*, perilous, problematic, risky, rocky, rugged*, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure, hanging by a thread, impugnable, on thin ice, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, firm, stable, strong, sure, undoubted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, risky |
| Synonyms: | capricious, contingent, dicey, erratic, fluky, hazardous, iffy*, incalculable, precarious, problematic, rocky, speculative, ticklish, touchy, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsound, whimsical, fluctuant, problematical |
| Antonyms: | certain, safe, secure, sure, tried, not dangerous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny*, threatening, ticklish*, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked, dangersome, jeopardous, on collision course, parlous |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, untroubled, unhazardous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hazardous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, unpredictable |
| Synonyms: | chancy, dicey*, difficult, hairy*, haphazard, hot*, insecure, perilous, precarious, risky, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, venturesome, wicked, parlous |
| Antonyms: | certain, guarded, predictable, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mischievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | devilish, wicked |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, bad, bothersome, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foxy*, frolicsome, harmful, hazardous, holy terror*, hurtful, ill, impish, injurious, insidious, irksome, malicious, malignant, naughty, nocuous, perilous, pernicious, playful, precarious, puckish, rascal, risky, rude, sinful, sly, spiteful, sportive, teasing, tricky, troublesome, vexatious, vicious, wayward, dickens, exasperating, ill-behaved, misbehaving, rascally, vexing |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, obedient, behaved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perilous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, delicate, dicey*, dynamite, exposed, hairy*, hazardous, insecure, loaded, precarious, risky, rugged, shaky, threatening, ticklish, touchy, treacherous, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vulnerable, wicked*, Russian roulette, on thin ice, playing with fire, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | safe, secure, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | problematic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open to doubt |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, arguable, chancy, debatable, disputable, doubtful, dubious, enigmatic, iffy*, indecisive, moot, open, precarious, puzzling, questionable, suspect, tricky, uncertain, unsettled, dubitable, problematical, up for grabs |
| Antonyms: | certain, settled, solvable, sure, fixable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rickety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsound, broken-down |
| Synonyms: | broken, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, imperfect, infirm, insecure, jerry-built*, precarious, ramshackle, rattletrap, rocky, shaky, unsteady, wavering, weak, wobbly, rachitic, tottering, tottery, tumble-down |
| Antonyms: | sound, stable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | risky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, delicate, dicey*, endangered, hairy*, hazardous, iffy*, insecure, long shot*, out on a limb*, perilous, precarious, rocky*, sensitive, speculative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, tricky, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, venturesome, wicked, wide-open, fraught with danger, going for broke, hanging by a thread, jeopardous, not a prayer, off the deep end, on slippery ground, on the spot, on thin ice, playing with fire |
| Antonyms: | assured, certain, safe, sure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ticklish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, tricky |
| Synonyms: | awkward, capricious, chancy, changeable, critical, dangerous, delicate, fickle, inconstant, mercurial, nice, precarious, risky, rocky, sensitive, temperamental, thorny, touchy, trying, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile |
| Antonyms: | easy, straightforward, unproblematic |
| Main Entry: | touchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily offended |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey*, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, irascible, irritable, jumpy*, mean, ornery*, peevish, petulant, precarious, querulous, quick-tempered, risky, sensitive, surly, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned*, ticklish*, tricky, unpredictable, unsafe, uptight*, volatile, bundle of nerves, crabbed, hypersensitive, oversensitive, perturbable, pettish, splenetic, wired up, wound up |
| Antonyms: | calm, easygoing, laid-back, unflappable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncertain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, changeable |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ambivalent, chancy, conjectural, dubious, erratic, fitful, hazy, hesitant, iffy*, incalculable, inconstant, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, insecure, irregular, irresolute, precarious, questionable, risky, speculative, unclear, undecided, undetermined, unforeseeable, unpredictable, unreliable, unresolved, unsettled, unsure, up in the air, vacillating, vague, variable, wavering, hanging by a thread, on thin ice, touch and go, unconfirmed, unfixed, up for grabs |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, definite, determined, secure, sure, unchanging, foreseeable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uneasy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward, uncomfortable |
| Synonyms: | afraid, agitated, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, bothered, disturbed, edgy, fearful, fidgety, fretful, ill at ease, impatient, insecure, irascible, irritable, jittery, jumpy, nervous, on edge, peevish, perplexed, perturbed, precarious, restive, restless, shaken, shaky, strained, suspicious, tense, troubled, unsettled, unstable, upset, worried, wrung, all nerves, anguished, constrained, discomposed, dismayed, disquieted, harassed, in turmoil, on the qui vive, palpitant, tormented, unquiet, vexed |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, composed, laid-back, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | unsafe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, chancy, erratic, explosive, hazardous, insecure, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, slippery, threatening, ticklish*, touchy*, treacherous, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsound, unstable, untrustworthy, fearsome, hanging by a thread, on a limb, on thin ice, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | harmless, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unstable/unsteady |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, weak |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dizzy, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful, giddy, inconsistent, inconstant, insecure, irrational, mercurial, mobile, movable, moving, mutable, precarious, rickety, risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, shifty, slippery, suspect, temperamental, ticklish, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unsteady, untrustworthy, vacillating, variable, volatile, wavering, wobbly, fluctuating, lubricious, not fixed, teetering, weaving, wiggly |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady, strong |
| Main Entry: | wobbly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaky |
| Synonyms: | insecure, precarious, rattletrap, rickety, rocky, unbalanced, uneven, unsafe, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vacillating, wavering, wavy, weak, fluctuant, teetering, tottering, wiggling |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady, unshaky |
| Main Entry: | out on a limb |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | in trouble |
| Synonyms: | chancy, dangerous, exposed, liable, open, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, on the spot, up a tree |
| Main Entry: | unstable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dizzy, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful, giddy, inconsistent, inconstant, insecure, irrational, mercurial, mobile, movable, moving, mutable, precarious, rickety, risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, shifty, slippery, suspect, temperamental, ticklish, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unsteady, untrustworthy, vacillating, variable, volatile, wavering, weak, wobbly, fluctuating, lubricious, not fixed, teetering, weaving, wiggly |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady, strong |
| Main Entry: | loaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective4 |
| Definition: | tricky |
| Synonyms: | deceitful, dicey*, leading, precarious, touchy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doubtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | questionable, unclear |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, debatable, dicey, disreputable, dubious, equivocal, far-fetched, fat chance, fishy*, hazardous, hazy, iffy*, inconclusive, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, insecure, long shot*, obscure, open, pending, precarious, problematic, shady, sneaky*, speculative, suspect, suspicious, touch-and-go, touchy, uncertain, undecided, uneasy, unsettled, unstable, unsure, clouded, doubtable, dubitable, impugnable, on thin ice, unconfirmed, up for grabs |
| Notes: | a person is capable of doubting, whereas a thing is dubitable; dubious, unlike doubtful, carries the connotation of suspicion |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, confirmed, decided, definite, exact, settled, unquestionable, resolved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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