perilousness
41awkwardness — [n1] clumsiness; inelegance amateurishness, artlessness, boorishness, cloddishness, coarseness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, greenness*, ignorance, inability, incompetence, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpertness, maladroitness, oafishness,… …
42gravity — [n1] force of attraction force, heaviness, pressure, weight; concept 641 Ant. weightedness gravity [n2] seriousness, importance acuteness, concern, consequence, exigency, hazardousness, momentousness, perilousness, severity, significance,… …
43parlous — ► ADJECTIVE archaic or humorous ▪ dangerously uncertain; precarious. ORIGIN contraction of PERILOUS(Cf. ↑perilousness) …
44perilous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ full of danger or risk. DERIVATIVES perilously adverb perilousness noun …
45perilously — perilous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ full of danger or risk. DERIVATIVES perilously adverb perilousness noun …
46perilous — [per′ə ləs] adj. [OFr perilleus < L periculosus] involving peril or risk; dangerous perilously adv. perilousness n …
47perilous — adj. 1 full of risk; dangerous; hazardous. 2 exposed to imminent risk of destruction etc. Derivatives: perilously adv. perilousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF perillous f. L periculosus f. periculum: see PERIL …
48touch-and-go — adjective 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,… …
