PRECARIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does precariously mean? 

• PRECARIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb PRECARIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a precarious manner

  Familiarity information: PRECARIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECARIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a precarious manner

Context example:

being a precariously dominant minority is a difficult position for human nature to cope with

Pertainym:

precarious (fraught with danger)

 Context examples 

The most plausible explanation, according to Benneke, is that GJ 3470 b was born precariously close to its red dwarf star, which is about half the mass of our Sun.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

He did not know that the Transcontinental had been staggering along precariously for years, that it was a fourth-rater, or tenth-rater, without standing, with a crazy circulation that partly rested on petty bullying and partly on patriotic appealing, and with advertisements that were scarcely more than charitable donations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)