parlous

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.
2. Appalling, dire, terrible.
3. (England, also, dialectal, obsolete, rare) Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual.

Adv

Extremely, very.

Concepts

périlleux

dangereux

difficile

hasardé

perilleux

délicat

précaire

redoutable

hasardeux

risqué

Synonymes

perilous

precarious

touch-and-go

hazardous

dangerous

clever

shrewd

canny

awkward

sharp

cunning

cute

designing

dire

dodgy

eager

embarrassing

excessive

excessively

extraordinary

hardheaded

ingenious

intelligent

keen

knowing

much

politic

risky

sharp-witted

sly

smart

spiffy

subtile

subtle

surprising

ticklish

very

vulpine

wily

on thin ice

pawky

slyish

periculous

alert

really difficult

arch

artful

astute

awake

brainy

Traductions

rischioso

peligroso

pericoloso

perigoso

kurnaz

tehlikeli

zor

perigosa

perillós

gevaarlijk

arriscat

becerikli

müşkül

müthiş

cimentoso

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpɑːləs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: parles

Appartenant à français: périlleux

In summary

From Middle English parles, parlous, perlous, [and other forms], a contraction of perilous (“dangerous; dreadful, terrible; morally corrupt, sinful, wicked; inauspicious, unlucky”) (and thus a doublet of perilous), from Old French perilleus, perillos, perillous, perilluse, perilleuse, perilleux (“very dangerous, perilous”) (modern French périlleux), from Latin perīculōsus (“dangerous, hazardous, perilous”), from perīculum (“danger, hazard, peril, risk”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through, carry forth, try”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives).