Synonyms of parlous
- 1 Syllable
- hot, bad
- 2 Syllables
- heavy, pressing, fatal, urgent, thorny, highly, touchy, hairy, breakneck, chancy, loaded, serious, shaky, wicked, risky, ticklish, deadly, nasty, ugly, queasy, mortal
- 3 Syllables
- hazardous, alarming, jeopardous, portentous, touch-and-go, critical, terrible, treacherous, viperous, dangerous, unstable, impending, menacing, unsafe, venturous, unhealthy, precarious, exposed, threatening, perilous, malignant
- 4 Syllables
- dangersome, impregnable, dynamite, vulnerable, formidable, delicate, adventurous, extremely, serpentine, insecure
- 5 Syllables
- speculative, venturesome
- 6 Syllables
- prohibitively