precarious
/pɹɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Depending on the intention of another.
Example Sentences
- "One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier."
- "Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious."
- "The existence of Jewish partisans was precarious. They lived from hand to mouth, stealing when necessary, arranging secret deliveries of food, and spending hours and even days in holes in the ground when danger threatened."
- "One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *preḱ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɹɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/
- British English: /pɹɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/
Inflected Forms
more precarious (comparative)
most precarious (superlative)