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hanging by a thread synonyms
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- clear as dishwater
- cryptic
- doubtful
- dubious
- enigmatic
- enigmatical
- equivocal
- inconclusive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- inexplicit
- muddy
- multivocal
- obscure
- opaque
- polysemous
- puzzling
- questionable
- tenebrous
- uncertain
- ambiguous
- ambivalent
- doubtful
- dubitable
- equivocal
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- marginal
- open
- problematic
- uncertain
- unclassifiable
- unclear
- undecided
- unsettled
- capricious
- contingent
- dicey
- erratic
- fluctuant
- fluky
- hazardous
- iffy
- incalculable
- precarious
- problematic
- problematical
- rocky
- speculative
- ticklish
- touchy
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsound
- accidental
- casual
- chance
- controlled by
- dependent
- fluky
- fortuitous
- haphazard
- incidental
- likely
- odd
- probable
- probably
- random
- subject to
- unanticipated
- uncertain
- unexpected
- unforeseeable
- unforeseen
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- aerial
- balmy
- breakable
- choice
- delectable
- delicious
- delightful
- elegant
- ethereal
- exquisite
- faint
- filmy
- fine
- fine-grained
- finespun
- flimsy
- fracturable
- fragile
- frail
- frangible
- capricious
- chancy
- dangerous
- difficult
- erratic
- fluctuant
- iffy
- incalculable
- ticklish
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- whimsical
- arguable
- chancy
- debatable
- diffident
- disputable
- dubitable
- equivocal
- far-fetched
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- hesitant
- iffy
- improbable
- indecisive
- moot
- mootable
- open
- perplexed
- problematic
- questionable
- TNT
- gelignite
- nitroglycerin
- trinitrotoluene
- ambiguous
- ambivalent
- amphibological
- borderline
- clear as mud
- clouded
- disreputable
- dubious
- evasive
- fishy
- fuzzy
- hazy
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- misleading
- muddled
- muzzy
- oblique
- obscure
- bearded
- bewhiskered
- bristly
- bushy
- downy
- fleecy
- flocculent
- fluffy
- furry
- fuzzy
- hirsute
- lanate
- pileous
- piliferous
- pilose
- pubescent
- rough
- shaggy
- stubbly
- tufted
- chancy
- dicey
- difficult
- hairy
- haphazard
- hot
- insecure
- parlous
- perilous
- precarious
- risky
- touchy
- uncertain
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unsound
- venturesome
- wicked
- capricious
- chancy
- conditional
- dicey
- doubtful
- erratic
- fluctuant
- in lap of gods
- incalculable
- problematic
- undecided
- unpredictable
- unsettled
- up in the air
- whimsical
- ambiguous
- borderline
- chancy
- clouded
- contingent
- debatable
- dicey
- disreputable
- doubtable
- dubious
- dubitable
- equivocal
- far-fetched
- fat chance
- fishy
- hazardous
- hazy
- iffy
- inconclusive
- indecisive
- astraddle
- changeable
- doubtful
- faltering
- halting
- hemming and hawing
- hesitant
- hesitating
- hot and cold
- inconclusive
- indeterminate
- irresolute
- of two minds
- on the fence
- tentative
- unclear
- undecided
- undetermined
- uneventful
- unsettled
- Delphic
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- choked
- diffident
- hanging by thread
- hesitant
- jumpy
- on thin ice
- questioning
- shaky
- touch and go
- touchy
- troubled
- unassured
- unconfident
- unpoised
- unsure
- up in the air
- brimming
- burdened
- full
- laden
- weighted
- acute
- central
- clamorous
- climacteric
- climatic
- compelling
- deciding
- decisive
- desperate
- dire
- essential
- hanging by thread
- high-priority
- imperative
- insistent
- momentous
- necessary
- pivotal
- pressing
- searching
- accessible
- agape
- airy
- ajar
- bare
- clear
- cleared
- dehiscent
- disclosed
- emptied
- expanded
- expansive
- exposed
- extended
- extensive
- free
- gaping
- made passable
- naked
- navigable
- chancy
- dangerous
- exposed
- liable
- on the spot
- open
- perilous
- precarious
- risky
- shaky
- up a tree
- Russian roulette
- chancy
- delicate
- dicey
- dynamite
- exposed
- hairy
- hazardous
- insecure
- loaded
- on thin ice
- playing with fire
- precarious
- risky
- rugged
- shaky
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch and go
- touchy
- ambiguous
- arguable
- chancy
- debatable
- disputable
- doubtful
- dubious
- dubitable
- enigmatic
- iffy
- indecisive
- moot
- open
- precarious
- problematical
- puzzling
- questionable
- suspect
- tricky
- uncertain
- chancy
- delicate
- dicey
- endangered
- fraught with danger
- going for broke
- hairy
- hanging by a thread
- hazardous
- iffy
- insecure
- jeopardous
- long shot
- not a prayer
- off the deep end
- on slippery ground
- on the spot
- on thin ice
- out on a limb
- perilous
- bouldered
- craggy
- flinty
- hard
- inflexible
- jagged
- lapidarian
- lithic
- pebbly
- petrified
- petrous
- rock-ribbed
- rockbound
- rough
- solid
- stonelike
- asperous
- broken
- coarse
- craggy
- difficult
- furrowed
- harsh
- hilly
- irregular
- jagged
- leathery
- lumpy
- mountainous
- ragged
- rocky
- rough
- roughhewn
- scabrous
- scraggy
- stark
- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- high-strung
- hung up
- hypersensitive
- impressible
- irritable
- keen
- knowing
- nervous
- oversensitive
- perceiving
- perceptive
- all aquiver
- aquake
- aquiver
- ashake
- faltering
- fluctuant
- infirm
- insecure
- jellylike
- jerry-built
- jittery
- nervous
- not set
- precarious
- quaking
- quivery
- rattletrap
- rickety
- rocky
- rootless
- glacé
- glassy
- glazed
- glistening
- greasy
- icy
- like a skating rink
- lubricious
- lustrous
- perilous
- polished
- satiny
- silky
- sleek
- slimy
- soapy
- unctuous
- unsafe
- unstable
- unsteady
- awkward
- capricious
- chancy
- changeable
- critical
- dangerous
- delicate
- fickle
- inconstant
- mercurial
- nice
- precarious
- risky
- rocky
- sensitive
- temperamental
- thorny
- touchy
- trying
- uncertain
- dangerous
- delicate
- hazardous
- parlous
- perilous
- precarious
- sensitive
- shaky
- touchy
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- bad-tempered
- bundle of nerves
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- delicate
- dicey
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hazardous
- hypersensitive
- irascible
- irritable
- jumpy
- mean
- ornery
- oversensitive
- ambiguous
- ambivalent
- chancy
- conjectural
- dubious
- erratic
- fitful
- hanging by a thread
- hazy
- hesitant
- iffy
- incalculable
- inconstant
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- insecure
- irregular
- irresolute
- on thin ice
- ailing
- below par
- debilitated
- delicate
- diseased
- down
- dragging
- feeble
- frail
- ill
- in a decline
- in ill health
- in poor health
- infirm
- invalid
- laid low
- out of action
- out of shape
- peaked
- poorly
- capricious
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- disreputable
- dubious
- erroneous
- fake
- fallible
- false
- fickle
- fly-by-night
- furtive
- hallucinatory
- hollow
- implausible
- inaccurate
- inconstant
- irresponsible
- makeshift
- alarming
- chancy
- erratic
- explosive
- fearsome
- hanging by a thread
- hazardous
- insecure
- on a limb
- on thin ice
- perilous
- precarious
- risky
- shaky
- slippery
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch and go
- touchy
- treacherous
- active
- agitated
- antsy
- anxious
- busy
- changeable
- changeful
- changing
- complex
- complicated
- confused
- disorderly
- disturbed
- explosive
- fidgety
- fluid
- flustered
- inconstant
- insecure
- kinetic
- ambiguous
- borderline
- capricious
- changeable
- dizzy
- dubious
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- giddy
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- insecure
- irrational
- lubricious
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- capricious
- changeable
- dizzy
- erratic
- fickle
- fluctuating
- giddy
- groggy
- inconstant
- precarious
- quivery
- rickety
- rocky
- shifting
- teetering
- tippy
- unreliable
- unsettled
- unsound
- unstable
- betwixt and between
- borderline
- distrustful
- dubious
- fluctuant
- fly-by-night
- hesitant
- iffy
- in a quandary
- indecisive
- indeterminate
- irresolute
- lacking
- mistrustful
- open
- problematic
- rootless
- shaky
- skeptical
- suspicious
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