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precariously

adv

Etymology

From precarious + -ly.

  1. derived from *-went-✻
  2. derived from -ōsos
  3. derived from -ōsus
  4. derived from -eux
  5. derived from *ḱes-✻
  6. derived from *kazēō✻
  7. derived from cariēs
  8. derived from carieux
  9. formed as precarious — “pre- + carious”
  10. suffixed as precariously — “precarious + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a precarious manner

    In a precarious manner; dangerously.

    • A Greater Anglia Class 755 stands precariously close to where ballast has been washed away at Haddiscoe on January 30.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for precariously. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA