precarious
Use the adjective precarious when something is unstable, dangerous or difficult and likely to get worse. Are you totally broke and the people you owe money to keep calling? You'rein a precarious financial situation! Precarious always signals that help is needed desperately. If your life is precarious or you are in a precarious situation, things could become difficult, maybe even dangerous, for you. If your footing or hold on something is precarious, it is unstable or not firmly placed, so that you are likely to slip or lose your grip. Used in a sentence, “She put herself in a precarious situation by purchasing a car she couldn’t afford.”
Example Sentences:
He earned a precarious livelihood/living by gambling.
She was in a state of precarious (meaning delicate) health.
The government is in a precarious position.
The strong wind almost knocked him off of his precarious perch on the edge of the cliff.
Our financial situation had become precarious.
They looked rather comical as they crawled up precarious ladders.
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