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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
alarming, awkward, bad, chancy, critical, dangerous, dangersome, difficult, explosive, fraught with danger, hairy, hazardous, iffy, jeopardous, menacing, periculous, perilous, precarious, risky, serious, threatening, ticklish, ugly, uncertain
Dictionary Results for parlous:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
parlous
    adj 1: 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,
           precarious, touch-and-go]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Parlous \Par"lous\, a. [For perlous, a contr. fr. perilous.]
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   1. Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough.
      [Archaic] "A parlous snuffing." --Beau. & Fl.
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   2. Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen. [Obs.] "A parlous
      boy." --Shak. "A parlous wit." --Dryden. -- Par"lous*ly,
      adv. [Obs.] -- Par"lous*ness, n. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]
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