• adj.
    ⦿fraught with danger
    lexical concept
  • a parlous journey on stormy seas
  • a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat
  • dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery
  • the precarious life of an undersea diver

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:parlous
  2. enl:perilous
  3. enl:precarious
  4. enl:touch-and-go
wn:interlingual indexili:i11304

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • parlousperiloustouch-and-go
  • parlousperilousprecarioustouch-and-go