affording no ease or reassurance; a precarious truce

[ Syn: unstable ]

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

[ Syn: parlous , perilous , touch-and-go ]

not secure; beset with difficulties; a shaky marriage

[ Syn: shaky ]