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parlous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of parlous

involving potential loss or injury

window washing can indeed be a parlous occupation on a skyscraper

Synonyms of parlous

dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unhealthy, unsafe, venturesome

Words Related to parlous

dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain

chance, haphazard, random

distressing, sickening, unpleasant

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilent

deadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous

Near Antonyms of parlous

advantageous, beneficial, good

Antonyms of parlous

harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening

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