parlous
Meaning of parlous
- Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.
The situation became parlous when the weather made resupply impossible.
- Appalling, dire, terrible.
Those manning the facility were in a parlous state.
- Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual.
adverb
Extremely, very.
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Hyphenation of parlous
par-lous
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- parlous is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
parlous synonyms
Meaning perilous:
Words that rhyme with parlous
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