Qualities
Synonyms for precarious
Synonyms for precarious: unstable, parlous and perilous. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for precarious
Interchangeable with precarious in this sense
Audited under precarious's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one precarious carries in that sense.
- unstableadjective, in the sense "affording no ease or reassurance"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name precarious as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under precarious's own sense. The second reach precarious from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
affording no ease or reassurance
A precarious truce.
The true synonym
unstable
Same sentence, swapped: A unstable truce.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- shifty
- problematic
- shifting
Where precarious turns up in the game
precarious is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where precarious is the trap
- dominantadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is commanding, in the sense "holding a commanding, superior position in a contest", so precarious is there to be ruled out.
- shakyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is trembling, in the sense "vibrating slightly and irregularly", so precarious is there to be ruled out.
- shakyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is wobbly, in the sense "inclined to shake as from weakness or defect", so precarious is there to be ruled out.
Play precarious
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so precarious reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
precarious is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.