Precarious.
Synonyms:
| doubtful, | hazardous, | risky, | unsettled, |
| dubious, | insecure, | unassured, | unstable, |
| equivocal, | perilous, | uncertain, | unsteady. |
Uncertain is applied to things that human knowledge can not certainly determine or that human power can not certainly control; precarious originally meant dependent on the will of another, and now, by extension of meaning, dependent on chance or hazard, with manifest unfavorable possibility verging toward probability; as, one holds office by a precarious tenure, or land by a precarious title; the strong man's hold on life is uncertain, the invalid's is precarious.
Antonyms:
| actual, | firm, | infallible, | stable, | sure, | undoubted, |
| assured, | immutable, | real, | steady, | undeniable, | unquestionable. |
| certain, | incontestable, | settled, | strong, | ||