| 单词 | precariousness |
| 释义 | precariousness (once / 46717 pages) n Precariousness is a state of being in danger or unsure about something. The precariousness of a small child balancing on a rock wall might cause you to wait below with your arms outstretched, ready to catch her. A literal kind of precariousness is when your dizzy sister is teetering on a balance beam or your grandmother's favorite flowery teacup looks like it's too close to the edge of the coffee table. There's also the figurative precariousness of being dependent on luck or chance, like the precariousness of graduating from art school with a large amount of debt and no job in sight. The Latin root, precarius, means "obtained by asking or praying." WORD FAMILYprecarious: precariously, precariousness USAGE EXAMPLESA similar sense of precariousness infects nearly all of the lives of Mr. Ryan’s characters, whose stories traverse several decades from the late 1960s on. New York Times(Dec 12, 2016) He puts the image of the crane, which in Asia symbolizes longevity, on a vase whose fractures suggest precariousness. Washington Post(Dec 01, 2016) Miller Taylor’s wide-angle shots, mostly of buildings condemned after a 2009 nor’easter, signal the precariousness of the human presence on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) 1n being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance the precariousness of his income Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper uncertainness, uncertainty certainty, foregone conclusion, sure thing something that is certain doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, question uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indeterminationthe quality of being vague and poorly defined unpredictabilitylacking predictability improbability, improbablenessthe quality of being improbable fortuitousnessthe quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance speculativenessthe quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation inconclusivenessthe quality of being inconclusive unlikelihood, unlikelinessthe improbability of a specified outcome quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n extreme dangerousness Hyper dangerousness the quality of not being safe |
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