precarious
adjEtymology
From Latin precārius (“begged for, obtained by entreaty”), from prex, precis (“prayer”). Compare French précaire, Portuguese precário, and Spanish and Italian precario.
Definitions
Dangerously insecure or unstable
Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.
- 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.
Depending on the intention of another.
Relating to incipient caries.
The neighborhood
- neighborpray
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at precarious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at precarious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at precarious
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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