Reverse Dictionary: PRECARIOUS

ADJECTIVES
► BETWEEN THE BEETLE AND THE BLOCK in a precarious or dangerous position → 1589
► CASUAL subject to chance or accident; frail, uncertain, precarious → 1529 obs.
► CATCHING in an uncertain or precarious state → c1611
► CAZZARDLY ► KAZZARDLY precarious, risky, uncertain → 1849 Eng. dial.
► CAZZELTY precarious, risky, uncertain; unreliable, fickle, changeable → 1873 Eng. dial.
► EYVY-KEYVY ► HAVEY-CAVEY ► EAVY-CEAVY ► EIGHVY-KEIGHVY unsteady, trembling in the balance; uncertain, undetermined, doubtful, wavering, precarious → 1874 Eng. dial.
► QUAVERY-MAVERY in an uncertain or precarious condition; undecided, and hesitating how to decide → 1809
► TICKLE insecure; precarious, slippery → 1579 obs.
► TICKLESOME difficult, critical, delicate, precarious → 1585 now Eng. dial.
► TICKLISH liable to end in disaster unless treated with great care; needing cautious handling or action; delicate, critical, precarious, risky, hazardous → 1592
► TOLTER moving unsteadily; unsteady, unstable, tottering; insecure, precarious → 1423 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WANKLE unsteady, insecure; changeable, unsettled, precarious; inconstant, wavering; also, weak in health, delicate, sickly → c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WANKLY unstable, wobbly, tottering; unsteady, not to be relied upon, precarious → 1795 chiefly Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► TICKLENESS insecurity, instability; critical situation, precariousness; inconstancy; uncertainty → c1390 obs.

PHRASES
► BETWEEN WIND AND WATER in a vulnerable or precarious position → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)

VERBS
► HANG ON BY ONE’S EYELIDS to be in a precarious situation → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HAVE A WOLF BY THE EARS to be in a precarious or difficult situation or predicament → 1560