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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open to attack |
| Synonyms: | accessible, assailable, defenseless, exposed, liable, naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, ready, sensitive, sitting duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, weak, wide open |
| Antonyms: | closed, guarded, protected, safe, secure |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | threatened |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | endangered |
| Synonyms: | exposed, imperiled, in danger, jeopardized, unprotected, unsafe, vulnerable, warned |
| Antonyms: | invulnerable, protected, safe |
| Main Entry: | unsheltered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unprotected |
| Synonyms: | exposed, uncovered, unsafe, vulnerable |
| Main Entry: | life-threatening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very dangerous |
| Synonyms: | capital, critical, deadly, hazardous, lethal, mortal, serious, severe, threatening, touch and go, unsafe |
| Main Entry: | jeopardous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, hazardous, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, parlous, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, venturesome, venturous, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | threatening |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, cautionary, close, comminatory, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impendent, impending, inauspicious, intimidatory, looming, loury, lowering, lowery, minacious, near, overhanging, portending, portentous, scowling, sinister, terrorizing, ugly*, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parlous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, hazardous, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, jeopardous, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, venturesome, venturous, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pregnable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulnerable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, assailable, attackable, defenseless, exposed, liable, naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, ready, sensitive, sitting duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, vincible, weak, wide open |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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