Parlous \Par"lous\, a. [For perlous, a contr. fr. perilous.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough.
[Archaic] "A parlous snuffing." --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
2. Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen. [Obs.] "A parlous
boy." --Shak. "A parlous wit." --Dryden. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
parlous
adj : 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: perilous, precarious, touch-and-go]
WordNet (r) 2.0
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "parlous":
alarming, awkward, bad, chancy, critical, dangerous, dangersome,
difficult, explosive, fraught with danger, hairy, hazardous, iffy,
jeopardous, menacing, periculous, perilous, precarious, risky,
serious, threatening, ticklish, ugly, uncertain
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
perilous, precarious, touch-and-go
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