Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a precarious manner; dependently; hence, with risk of detriment, alteration, failure, total loss, or removal.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a precarious manner; dangerously
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a precarious manner
Etymologies
- precarious + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope.”
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“Although many trees have been removed from homes and businesses, others remain precariously poised to fall.”
“47 The image of the child in utero as fruit hanging precariously from a tree extended back to Galen, as Constantinus believed. 48 While Aldobrandino's passage and metaphor attributed a considerable amount of agency to the fruit-fetus (note the active voice), most discussions of fetal growth and parturition portrayed the fetus as entirely passive.”
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“The lighting setup was four ceiling lights (two warm white incandescent and two daylight energy saving) with one fluorescent desk lamp for right-side illumination and a large halogen standing lamp (titled precariously and propped up by random furniture) at 45 deg which was the illumination source from the left and also the brightest of the lot.”
“Much of it had been stored, quite precariously, in plastic jugs at three separate warehouses in Tripoli suburbs.”
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“The tide is going out and there are plenty of rocks to turn over, and after only 10 minutes, the youngest, precariously balanced on a boulder near the jetty, calls us over excitedly.”
“A weathered brown house hangs precariously out over a creek, an enormous chunk of soil underneath chewed away by floodwaters.”
“Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal A crew member precariously stands on top of a ladder to adjust lights before Charlotte Ronson's Fall 2011.”
“He rowed back to the island and loaded the boat which was now precariously low in the water.”
“We see him Wells airily discarding, or melting down, all those props and guard rails on which the population of this crowded and precariously conditioned island have been accustomed to rely...”
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Panvocalic euryvocalic
"Euryvocalics" are words that contain all the vowels once, including "y". "Euryvocalic", meaning "broad vowels", was coined here to describe this kind of word. Words having all the vowels once exce...
euryvocalic, absolutively, abstemiously, abstentiously, adventiously, youngmanishness, facetiously, audiometry, neustonically, cylindraceous, denunciatory, equivocally and 591 more...
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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illuminate, obscure, invalidate, temperance, notoriety, eminence, tumultous, providential, dispassionate, precariously, relentlessly, trifling and 48 more...
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tom swifties
emphatically, unthinkingly, precariously, meritoriously, unceasingly, coaxingly, fervently, copacetically, sibilantly, laconically, overbearingly, incorrigibly and 66 more...
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The Nanny Diaries
Words encountered from the novel "The Nanny Diaries" by Emma MCLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
Genuflect, Epitome, loom, cognitive, filigree, insouciance, careen, precariously, consternation, acquiesce, decadent, trepidation and 27 more...
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