parlous
parlously
Parlous is an adjective that means "dangerous," such as the parlous car trip with a new driver behind the wheel!
The first syllable in parlous rhymes with far and is accented: "PAR-less." It means dangerous — something that is parlous might carry the risk or threat of harm, like a parlous experience of being in a boat during a rainstorm. Parlous and perilous are synonyms. In fact, parlous is a shortened version, or contraction, of perilous that came about in the late 14th century.
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fraught with danger“a parlous journey on stormy seas”
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synonyms:
perilous, precarious, touch-and-go
Vocabulary lists containing parlous
In this comedy, various exiles — including Duke Senior, his daughter Rosalind, her cousin Celia, a nobleman named Orlando, and a fool — flee to the forest Arden.
In this comic novel, a nineteenth-century engineer is magically transported back to medieval England.
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