Parlous

Definition: Parlous

Parlous

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "parlous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Parlous \Par"lous\, adjective. [For perlous, contr. from perilous.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Parlous A corrupt form of perilous, in slang = our modern use of "awful," amazing, wondrous. "Oh! 'tis a parlous lad." Shakespeare: As You Like It, iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Parlous

Synonyms: perilous (adj), precarious (adj), touch-and-go (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Danger	Adjective: in danger; Noun: endangered; Verb: fraught with danger; dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous; unsafe, unprotected; (safe, protect; );insecure. untrustworthy; built upon.sand, on a sandy basis; wildcat.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Parlous

English words defined with "parlous": perilous, precarious ♦ touch-and-go. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	A parlous boy! Go to, you are too shrewd.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Parlous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Parlous" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	36	57,479

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "parlous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tepër (beastly, confoundedly, damnably, dearly, excessively, extremely, frightfully, greatly, highly, most, overly, overmuch, overwhelmingly, passing, pathetically, precious, so, too, too much, unduly, very), jashtëzakonisht (embarrassingly, enormously, exceedingly, extraordinarily, extremely, immensely, notably, on end, only, overwhelmingly, pre-eminently, rare, rarely, really, solely), i vështirë (awkward, convoluted, deep, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, intractable, Kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, onerous, painful, recondite, rough, scabrous, stiff, ticklish, toilful, trying), i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous), i rrezikshëm (breakneck, critical, dangerous, endangering, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, high risk, malign, nasty, perilous, pestilent, risky, risque, touch and go, unchancy, unsafe). (various references)

Arabic		‏محفوف بالخطر (dangerous), ‏عابر (ephemeral, fleeting, in transit, passing, precarious, sneak, stealthy, tenuous, transient, transitory), ‏خطر (adventurous, advise, awkward, challenge, come, critical, danger, dangerous, embargo, fear, give smb. notice, hazard, importance, jeopardy, peril, perilous, poisonous, prohibition, proscription, risk, risky, unhealthy). (various references)

Bulgarian		рискован (adventurous, chanceful, chancy, hazardous, insecure, perilous, precarious, queasy, risky, speculative, sporting, touch and go, unsound, venturesome), хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), лукав (astute, crafty, designing, feline, furtive, guileful, pawky, serpentine, sly, snaky, subtle, tricky, underhand, wicked, wily). (various references)

French		précaire, périlleux, alarmant. (various references)

German		furchtbar (abysmal, awful, awfully, dreadful, fearful, fearfully, formidable, frightful, frightfully, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, redoubtable, shocking, shockingly, terrible, terribly, tremendous). (various references)

Greek		έξυπνοσ (alert, awake, brainy, cagey, cagy, canny, clever, cute, hard-headed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, politic, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, spiffy), πανούργοσ (arch, artful, astute, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, pawky, sharp, shrewd, sly, slyish, subtile, subtle, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Hebrew		בסכ� �" (at stake). (various references)

Hungarian		veszedelmes (dangerous, malign, noxious, perilous, pernicious, pestiferous, poisonous, ruinous), veszélyes (baleful, dangerous, fraught with danger, have teeth in it, hazardous, insecure, malignant, nasty, perilous, risky, sticky, unsafe), merész (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, coup, daring, enterprising, foolhardy, hazardous, intrepid, plucky, presumptuous, risky, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous). (various references)

Italian		periglioso. (various references)

Manx		danjeyragh (dangerous, perilous). (various references)

Pig Latin		arlouspay

Portuguese		perigoso (adventure, adventurous, breakneck, chanceful, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, hot as, insecurity, perilous, precarious, risky, touch and go, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, venturesome), tremendo (frigid, tearing, terrible, terrific, tremendous), terrível (abysmal, awesome, awful, deadly, desperate, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, elect, fearful, fearsome, fell, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hideout, horrible, horrid, lurid, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, ungodly), extremamente esperto, extremamente (all, almighty, deeply, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, extremism, immensely, mightiness, mighty, mortally, passing, plaguy, precious, rare, right, sorely, too, very, violently), difícil de tratar, criada de quarto (parlour). (various references)

Romanian		periculos (awkward, baleful, breakneck, dangerous, dangerously, grave, perilous, perniciously, risky, trappy, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), riscat (precarious, risky, venturesome, wildcat), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), exploziv (detonating, explosive), dificil (abstract, awkward, captious, choosy, cross-grained, dainty, delicate, difficult, fastidious, finical, hard, ill, intractable, involved, nice, qualmish, scabrous, spiny, stiff, tender, thorny, ticklish, tough, troublesome, unyielding), încordat (concentrated, feverishly, hard, intensive, intent, strained, strenuous, strenuously, tense). (various references)

Russian		опасный (breakneck, chanceful, dangerous, dicey, endangering, grave, hazardous, heroic, hot, nasty, perilous, precarious, risky, trappy, unsafe, virulent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		opasan (adventurous, breakneck, dangerous, girded, hazardous, perilous, pernicious, tight, treacherous, ugly, uncanny, unsafe, venturous, vicious). (various references)

Spanish		peligroso (dangerous, hazardous, nasty, perilous, pernicious, reckless, risky, ugly), alarmante (alarming, startling). (various references)

Swedish		svår (arduous, bad, catchy, difficult, excessive, grievous, hard, heavy, inconvenient, rough, rugged, severe, sore, strong, taxing, testing, tough), kinkig (choosey, difficult, discriminated, fastidious, fussy, Kittle, particular, pernickety, petulant, spiny, squeamish, testing, tricky), farlig (awful, critical, dangerous, dangerous bank, harmful, hazardous, hot, perilous). (various references)

Turkish		tehlikeli (adventurous, breakneck, danger, dangerous, daring, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, noxious, perilous, pestilent, pestilential, risky, touch and go, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), fazlasıyla (amply, damned, darned, disproportionate, eminently, exceedingly, extremely, far better, in spades, jolly, largely, more than enough, precious, strongly, superfluously), aşırı derecede (extremely, heartily, heavily, in the extreme, intensely, overly, plethoric, riotous, unco, unduly), ürkütücü (basilisk, crawly, eerie, eery, frightening, gruesome, macabre, scary, spine-chilling, startling). (various references)

Ukranian		небезпечний (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, insecure, nasty, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, serious, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, virulent, wicked). (various references)

Vietnamese		vô cùng (ad infinitum, almighty, consumedly, day, deeply, dreadfully, extremely, frightfuly, half, halves, most, passing, plaguy, precious, preciously, rank, termless, thundering, utmost, uttermost), khó chơi hết sức khôn ngoan, hết sức láu, cực kỳ (beastly, damned, deadly, dogged, frightfuly, mortally, most, ripping, thundering, whacking), đùa hết sức, đáng ghê; hắc búa. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "parlous": parlously. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Parlous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pagliuca, palois, Palous, Palouse, parilous, parious, parlo, Parlow, Parois, parous, Pelvoux, Pielou, Piriou, purious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "parlous" (pronounced 'Par"lous'): Acarpellous, Achilous, Achylous, Anhelous, Antibillous, Apellous, Argillous, Callous, Chylous, Favillous, Fibrillous, Hirtellous, Morbillous, Perlous, Phyllous, Podophyllous, Procellous, Procoelous, Rhabdocoelous, Schizocoelous, Subpodophyllous, Thallous, Villous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-o-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: parols, parous, polars, pulsar, sapour, sporal, upsoar.
	-2 letters: loups, lours, opals, orals, parol, polar, pours, praos, praus, proas, purls, roups, sapor, slurp, solar, supra, sural.
	-3 letters: alps, also, laps, lars, lops, loup, lour, oars, opal, opus, oral, osar, ours, pals, pars, plus, pols, pour, prao, prau, proa, pros, pula, puls, purl, purs, raps, rasp, roup, salp, saul, slap, slop, slur, soap, soar, sola, sora, soul, soup, sour, spar, spur, sura, upas, ursa.
	-4 letters: alp, als, ars, asp, lap, lar, las, lop, oar, ops, ora, ors, our, pal, par, pas, pol, pro, pul, pur, pus, rap, ras, sal, sap, sau, sol, sop, sou, spa, sup, upo, ups.
	-5 letters: al, ar, as, la, lo, op, or, os, pa, so, up, us.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-o-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: parlours, postural, poulards, pulsator, sporular, subpolar.
	+2 letters: crapulous, fluorspar, parlously, pauldrons, polyurias, poulardes, procurals, pulsators, sporulate, troupials, uprootals.
	+3 letters: fluorspars, operculars, outsparkle, peculators, pellagrous, pelycosaur, plesiosaur, plutocrats, popularise, portulacas, postulator, propagules, prothallus, speculator, sporulated, sporulates, stipulator, superalloy, unpastoral, vaporously.
	+4 letters: amorphously, corpuscular, duplicators, lepromatous, leprosarium, loudspeaker, multiparous, nulliparous, outsparkled, outsparkles, pelycosaurs, petrolatums, photomurals, playgrounds, plesiosaurs, polyandrous, popularised, popularises, popularizes, postulators, pourparlers, procedurals, proconsular, promulgates, provascular, quadrupoles, rapaciously, rapturously, repopulates, semipopular, speculators, sporulating, sporulation, sporulative, stipulators, stipulatory, subtropical, superalloys, supernormal, supportable.
	+5 letters: ailurophiles, ailurophobes, allopurinols, capriciously, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, hyperarousal, leprosariums, loudspeakers, manipulators, microcapsule, outsparkling, pasqueflower, pelargoniums, plutocracies, popularising, popularities, popularizers, porcelaneous, postsurgical, precariously, proconsulate, promulgators, prosecutable, prothalluses, rampageously, somatopleure, sporulations, superovulate, superposable, supplicatory, supraorbital, uproariously, viviparously, voluptuaries.
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