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- parlous
collapse - 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" related words >
- alarming
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- causing alarm or fear related words >
- awing,
- bad,
- chilling,
- critical,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- daunting,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- explosive,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- fraught with danger,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- jeopardous,
- menacing,
- overawing,
- parlous,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- scaring,
- scary,
- serious,
- startling,
- threatening,
- ugly
- alarming,
- bad,
- chancy,
- critical,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- delicate,
- desultory,
- explosive,
- fraught with danger,
- hairy,
- hazardous,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- jeopardous,
- menacing,
- parlous,
- periculous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- risky,
- serious,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- susceptible,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- threatening,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- touchy,
- treacherous,
- ugly,
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- unfaithworthy,
- unhealthy,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- vulnerable,
- wicked
- dangerous
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- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"
- involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" related words >
- alarming,
- bad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- critical,
- dangersome,
- desultory,
- explosive,
- fell,
- fraught with danger,
- grievous,
- hairy,
- haphazard,
- harmful,
- hazardous,
- hit-or-miss,
- iffy,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- jeopardous,
- major,
- menacing,
- parlous,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- random,
- rickety,
- risky,
- serious,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- threatening,
- ticklish,
- treacherous,
- ugly,
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- unfaithworthy,
- unhealthy,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- wicked
- about to be,
- abusive,
- alarming,
- already in sight,
- apocalyptic,
- approaching,
- at hand,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- brewing,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- close,
- close at hand,
- coming,
- comminatory,
- critical,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- dark,
- denunciatory,
- dire,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- explosive,
- fateful,
- fear-inspiring,
- foreboding,
- forthcoming,
- fraught with danger,
- future,
- gathering,
- gloomy,
- going to happen,
- hectoring,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- impending,
- in danger imminent,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the wind,
- in view,
- inauspicious,
- instant,
- intimidating,
- jeopardous,
- looming,
- lowering,
- lurking,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- on the horizon,
- overhanging,
- parlous,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- portending,
- portentous,
- preparing,
- serious,
- sinister,
- somber,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- that will be,
- threatful,
- to come,
- ugly,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- untoward,
- upcoming,
- waiting
- about to be,
- abusive,
- alarming,
- already in sight,
- apocalyptic,
- approaching,
- at hand,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- brewing,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- chancy,
- close,
- close at hand,
- coming,
- comminatory,
- critical,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- dark,
- denunciatory,
- dire,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- explosive,
- fateful,
- fear-inspiring,
- foreboding,
- forthcoming,
- fraught with danger,
- frightening,
- future,
- gathering,
- gloomy,
- going to happen,
- hazardous,
- hectoring,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- impending,
- in danger imminent,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the wind,
- in view,
- inauspicious,
- instant,
- intimidating,
- jeopardous,
- looming,
- lowering,
- lurking,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- on the horizon,
- overhanging,
- parlous,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- portending,
- portentous,
- preparing,
- risky,
- serious,
- sinister,
- somber,
- terrifying,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- that will be,
- threatening,
- threatful,
- to come,
- ugly,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- untoward,
- upcoming,
- waiting
- ugly
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- displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture" related words >
- abominable,
- alarming,
- awkward,
- bad,
- bad-tempered,
- base,
- bearish,
- beautiless,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- blemished,
- blotted,
- cacophonic,
- cacophonous,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- corrupt,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- critical,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- debased,
- defaced,
- degenerate,
- depraved,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- disadvantageous,
- disagreeable,
- discomforting,
- disfigured,
- disgusting,
- dislikable,
- displeasing,
- disquieting,
- distasteful,
- dysphemistic,
- dysphemized,
- evil,
- excitable,
- execrable,
- explosive,
- feisty,
- filthy,
- foul,
- fractious,
- fraught with danger,
- ghastly,
- grotesque,
- gruesome,
- hateful,
- hazardous,
- heinous,
- hideous,
- homely,
- hostile,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- ill-favored,
- ill-tempered,
- immoral,
- inelegant,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jeopardous,
- loathsome,
- marred,
- mean,
- menacing,
- mephitic,
- nasty,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- noisome,
- objectionable,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- ominous,
- ornery,
- parlous,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- plain,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rotten,
- serious,
- short on looks,
- sickening,
- snappish,
- sordid,
- sour,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- spoiled,
- surly,
- testy,
- thankless,
- threatening,
- troublesome,
- uglified,
- ugly as hell,
- ugly as sin,
- unaesthetic,
- unalluring,
- unappealing,
- unappetizing,
- unattractive,
- unbeautiful,
- uncomely,
- uncomfortable,
- undelectable,
- undelicious,
- undesirable,
- unengaging,
- unenjoyable,
- unhandsome,
- uninviting,
- unlikable,
- unlovely,
- unpalatable,
- unpleasant,
- unpleasing,
- unprepossessing,
- unpretty,
- unsavory,
- unsightly,
- untasteful,
- unwelcome,
- vile,
- waspish
- explosive
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- a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
- serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; "an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper"
- sudden and loud; "an explosive laugh"
- liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" related words >
- Ballistite,
- TNT,
- agitable,
- alarming,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- anxious,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bad,
- banging,
- bilabial,
- blasting,
- bursting,
- cacuminal,
- cellulose nitrate,
- cerebral,
- chancy,
- check,
- combustible,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- cordite,
- cracking,
- crashing,
- critical,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- delicate,
- dental,
- detonating,
- dicey,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- dynamite,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- epenthetic vowel,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explodable,
- exploding,
- explosible,
- fiery,
- flapping,
- fraught,
- fraught with danger,
- fulminating,
- gelignite,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- gunpowder,
- guttural,
- hasty,
- hazardous,
- high explosive,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hot,
- hot-tempered,
- hotheaded,
- iffy,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jeopardous,
- knocking,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- manner of articulation,
- melinite,
- menacing,
- mettlesome,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- nasty,
- nervous,
- nitrocotton,
- nitroglycerin,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- parlous,
- passionate,
- peak,
- peppery,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- perturbable,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- plastic,
- plastic explosive,
- plosive,
- popping,
- powder,
- precarious,
- prickly,
- prothetic vowel,
- quick,
- quick-tempered,
- rapping,
- retroflex,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sensitive,
- serious,
- shaky,
- short-tempered,
- skittish,
- slapping,
- slatting,
- smokeless powder,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- spunky,
- startlish,
- stop,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tapping,
- tense,
- threatening,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- transition sound,
- trinitrotoluol,
- triphthong,
- ugly,
- uncertain,
- unpredictable,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- velar,
- villanous saltpetre,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- vowel
- serious
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- requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw"
- of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter"
- concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!" related words >
- abandoned,
- acute,
- afire,
- alarming,
- ardent,
- arduous,
- austere,
- awe-inspiring,
- bad,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- burning,
- businesslike,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- committed,
- comprehensive,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- critical,
- crucial,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- decided,
- decisive,
- decorous,
- dedicated,
- deep,
- definite,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- demure,
- determined,
- devoted,
- devout,
- difficult,
- dignified,
- dour,
- earnest,
- elevated,
- excogitating,
- exhaustive,
- explosive,
- faithful,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fell,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- formal,
- formidable,
- fraught with danger,
- frowning,
- full,
- genuine,
- grand,
- grave,
- great,
- grievous,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- hearty,
- heated,
- heavy,
- honest,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- humorless,
- ideative,
- impassioned,
- important,
- imposing,
- in earnest,
- inspiring,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- introspective,
- irresistible,
- jeopardous,
- laborious,
- life-and-death,
- life-or-death,
- lofty,
- long-faced,
- loyal,
- main,
- majestic,
- major,
- maximum,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- menacing,
- mental,
- mighty,
- moderate,
- momentous,
- moving,
- museful,
- musing,
- nasty,
- no joke,
- no laughing matter,
- no-nonsense,
- noble,
- noetic,
- obstinate,
- on fire,
- operose,
- parlous,
- passionate,
- pensive,
- perfervid,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- plenary,
- poker-faced,
- pondering,
- portentous,
- powerful,
- precarious,
- prehensive,
- pressing,
- purposeful,
- red-hot,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- sedate,
- serious-minded,
- severe,
- significant,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solemn,
- somber,
- speculative,
- spirited,
- staid,
- stately,
- steady,
- stern,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- straightforward,
- strenuous,
- strong,
- sublime,
- temperate,
- tenacious,
- thinking,
- thought,
- thoughtful,
- threatening,
- total,
- tough,
- ugly,
- unamusing,
- unfunny,
- unsmiling,
- urgent,
- vehement,
- vital,
- warm,
- weighty,
- white-hot,
- wholehearted,
- wistful,
- zealous
- critical
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- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings"
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; "a critical shortage of food"; "a critical illness"; "an illness at the critical stage"
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction; "a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure"; "critical mass"; "go critical"
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; "a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test"
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary; "a critical element of the plan"; "critical medical supplies"; "vital for a healthy society"; "of vital interest"
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism; "critical acclaim" related words >
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- accurate,
- acute,
- alarming,
- allegorizing,
- annotative,
- appreciative,
- arduous,
- attentive,
- bad,
- basic,
- belittling,
- brutal,
- captious,
- carping,
- caviling,
- censorious,
- charged,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- clamorous,
- clarifying,
- climacteric,
- close,
- commentative,
- commentatorial,
- compelling,
- complex,
- conclusive,
- conscientious,
- consequential,
- correct,
- critic,
- crucial,
- crying,
- cynical,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- decisive,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- demeaning,
- demonstrative,
- demythologizing,
- deprecating,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciating,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- desperate,
- detailed,
- determinative,
- differential,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- dire,
- discerning,
- discoursive,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- disparaging,
- disquisitional,
- dissertational,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- editorial,
- elucidative,
- emergent,
- enlightening,
- essayistic,
- essential,
- euhemeristic,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exegetic,
- exemplificative,
- exigent,
- explaining,
- explanatory,
- explicative,
- explicatory,
- explosive,
- expositive,
- expositorial,
- expository,
- exquisite,
- fastidious,
- faultfinding,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- formidable,
- fraught with danger,
- fussy,
- glossarial,
- grave,
- hairsplitting,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- humbling,
- hypercritical,
- illuminating,
- illuminative,
- illustrative,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- important,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- jeopardous,
- judgemental,
- judgmental,
- judicative,
- judicial,
- judiciary,
- judicious,
- juridic,
- juristic,
- kairotic,
- key,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- loaded,
- lowering,
- mean,
- menacing,
- meticulous,
- minute,
- momentous,
- monographic,
- nagging,
- narrow,
- nice,
- niggling,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- on slippery ground,
- on thin ice,
- operose,
- overcritical,
- parlous,
- particular,
- penetrating,
- perfectionistic,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- pettifogging,
- picky,
- pivotal,
- precarious,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pregnant,
- pressing,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- quibbling,
- rationalistic,
- rationalizing,
- refined,
- religious,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scholiastic,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- serious,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- significant,
- slippery,
- slippy,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strenuous,
- strict,
- subtle,
- tactful,
- thorny,
- threatening,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- tough,
- trichoschistic,
- tricky,
- ugly,
- ultracritical,
- uncertain,
- uphill,
- urgent,
- vital,
- weighty,
- wicked
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