on thin ice

Main Entry:
crucial [kroo-shuhl]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: critical, important
Synonyms: acute, central, clamorous, climacteric, climatic, compelling, deciding, decisive, desperate, dire, essential, hanging by thread, high-priority, imperative, insistent, momentous, necessary, on thin ice, pivotal, pressing, searching, showdown, touch and go, touchy, urgent, vital
Notes: the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...)
Antonyms: inessential, trivial, uncritical, unimportant
Main Entry: insecure
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uncertain, worried
Synonyms: Delphic, afraid, anxious, apprehensive, choked, diffident, hanging by thread, hesitant, jumpy, on thin ice, questioning, shaky, touch and go, touchy*, troubled, unassured, unconfident, unpoised, unsure, up in the air, uptight*, vague
Antonyms: certain, confident, secure, sure
Main Entry: perilous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dangerous
Synonyms: Russian roulette, chancy, delicate, dicey, dynamite, exposed, hairy*, hazardous, insecure, loaded, on thin ice, playing with fire, precarious, risky, rugged, shaky, threatening, ticklish, touch and go, touchy, treacherous, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vulnerable, wicked*
Antonyms: ok, safe, secure
Main Entry: precarious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tricky, doubtful
Synonyms: ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate, dicey, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hairy*, hanging by a thread, hazardous, iffy, impugnable, indecisive, insecure, loaded, on thin ice, open, out on a limb, perilous, problematic, risky, rocky, rugged*, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touch and go, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure
Antonyms: certain, definite, firm, stable, strong, sure, undoubted
Main Entry: risky
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dangerous
Synonyms: chancy, delicate, dicey, endangered, fraught with danger, going for broke, hairy*, hanging by a thread, hazardous, iffy, insecure, jeopardous, long shot, not a prayer, off the deep end, on slippery ground, on the spot, on thin ice, out on a limb, perilous, playing with fire, precarious, rocky, sensitive, speculative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, tricky, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, venturesome, wicked, wide-open
Antonyms: assured, certain, safe, sure
Main Entry: uncertain
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful, changeable
Synonyms: ambiguous, ambivalent, chancy, conjectural, dubious, erratic, fitful, hanging by a thread, hazy, hesitant, iffy, incalculable, inconstant, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, insecure, irregular, irresolute, on thin ice, precarious, questionable, risky, speculative, touch and go, unclear, unconfirmed, undecided, undetermined, unfixed, unforeseeable, unpredictable, unreliable, unresolved, unsettled, unsure, up for grabs, up in the air, vacillating, vague, variable, wavering
Antonyms: certain, clear, definite, determined, foreseeable, secure, sure, unchanging
Main Entry: unsafe
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dangerous
Synonyms: alarming, chancy, erratic, explosive, fearsome, hanging by a thread, hazardous, insecure, on a limb, on thin ice, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, slippery, threatening, ticklish, touch and go, touchy*, treacherous, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsound, unstable, untrustworthy
Antonyms: harmless, protected, safe, secure
Main Entry: unapt
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful
Synonyms: ambiguous, borderline, chancy, clouded, contingent, debatable, dicey, disreputable, doubtable, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, far-fetched, fat chance, fishy, hazardous, hazy, iffy, improbable, impugnable, inconclusive, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, insecure, long shot, obscure, on thin ice, open, pending, precarious, problematic, questionable, shady*, sneaky*, speculative, suspect, suspicious, touch-and-go, touchy, uncertain, unconfirmed, undecided, uneasy, unlikely, unsettled, unstable, unsure, up for grabs
Notes: inapt is 'not suitable or appropriate' while unapt is 'not likely or inclined'
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