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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, risky |
| Synonyms: | capricious, contingent, dicey, erratic, fluctuant, fluky, hazardous, iffy, incalculable, precarious, problematic, problematical, rocky, speculative, ticklish, touchy, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsound, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, not dangerous, safe, secure, sure, tried |
| Main Entry: | erratic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpredictable; wandering |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bizarre, capricious, changeable, desultory, devious, dicey, directionless, dubious, eccentric, fitful, flaky*, fluctuant, idiosyncratic, iffy, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, meandering, mercurial, nomadic, oddball, peculiar, planetary, rambling, roving, shifting, spasmodic, strange, stray, uncertain, undirected, unnatural, unreliable, unstable, unusual, vagarious, variable, volatile, wayward, weird, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, consistent, definite, dependable, predictable, regular, reliable, steady, sure, unchanging |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | iffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncertain |
| Synonyms: | capricious, chancy, conditional, dicey, doubtful, erratic, fluctuant, in lap of gods, incalculable, problematic, undecided, unpredictable, unsettled, up in the air, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, reliable, sure |
| Main Entry: | incalculable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | countless, limitless |
| Synonyms: | boundless, capricious, chancy, enormous, erratic, fluctuant, iffy, immense, incomputable, inestimable, infinite, innumerable, jillion, measureless, no end of, no end to, numberless, uncertain, uncountable, unfixed, unforeseen, unpredictable, unreckonable, untold, vast, whimsical, without number, zillion |
| Antonyms: | calculable, countable, limited, measurable |
| Main Entry: | insecure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, precarious |
| Synonyms: | defenseless, exposed, fluctuant, frail, hazardous, immature, insubstantial, loose, open to attack, perilous, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaky, unguarded, unprotected, unreliable, unsafe, unshielded, unsound, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vulnerable, wavering, weak, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | guarded, protected, safe, secure, sound |
| Main Entry: | shaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trembling |
| Synonyms: | all aquiver, aquake, aquiver, ashake, faltering, fluctuant, infirm, insecure, jellylike, jerry-built, jittery, nervous, not set, precarious, quaking, quivery, rattletrap, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaking, tottering, tottery, tremorous, tremulous, tumbledown, unfirm, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vacillating, wavering, weak, wobbly, yielding |
| Antonyms: | firm, steady, unshaky, unwavering |
| Main Entry: | unsure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, insecure |
| Synonyms: | betwixt and between, borderline, distrustful, dubious, fluctuant, fly-by-night, hesitant, iffy, in a quandary, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, lacking, mistrustful, open, problematic, rootless, shaky, skeptical, suspicious, touch and go, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unconfident, unconvinced, undecided, undependable, unreliable, unstable, untrustworthy, untrusty, up for grabs, vacillating, wavering, weak, wimpy, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, secure, sure, undoubted |
| Main Entry: | weak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | faint-hearted, fluctuant, frightened, hesitant, impotent, indecisive, ineffectual, infirm, insecure, irresolute, laid-back*, nerveless, nervous, palsied, powerless, shaky, soft, spineless, tender, timorous, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unstable, unsure, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed, wimpy, wishy-washy, wobbly, zero* |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, confident |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wobbly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaky |
| Synonyms: | fluctuant, insecure, precarious, rattletrap, rickety, rocky, teetering, tottering, unbalanced, uneven, unsafe, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vacillating, wavering, wavy, weak, wiggling |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady, unshaky |
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