Grab for the adjective precarious when something is unstable, dangerous or difficult and likely to get worse. Are you totally broke and the people you owe money to keep calling? You're in a precarious financial situation!
Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another;
Adjective S.
affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage"
Adjective S.
dangerously insecure; "a precarious footing on the ladder"
a.
Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by
courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as,
precarious privileges.
a.
Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes
or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for
certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health;
precarious fortunes.
Precarious
Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another;
Usage Examples
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
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Other Usage ExamplesAnd how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.