1. precarious - Adjective
2. precarious - Adjective Satellite
Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges.
Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLiberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. Morris Raphael Cohen
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. Herbert Marcuse
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. Susan Sontag
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. William Falconer
To describe a person who has just gotten out from a precarious situation just to get into another precarious situation. Indonesian Proverb
Commerce flourishes by circumstances precarious. American Proverb