Значение

значений: 3
  1. Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.

    The situation became parlous when the weather made resupply impossible.

  2. Appalling, dire, terrible.

    in a parlous state

  3. (England, также, диалектное, устаревшее, редкое)Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual.

Ещё определения
  • fraught with danger

Примеры

предложений: 1
  1. Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd.

Происхождение

From Middle English parles, parlous, perlous, [and other forms], a contraction of perilous

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).

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Формы

more parlous, most parlous
Сравнительная степеньmore parlous Урок
Превосходная степеньmost parlous Урок

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 14

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 8

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