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parlous

1 antonym for parlous — opposites grouped by meaning.

Adj — Full of danger or risk.

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This word comes from Middle English parles, parlous, perlous, and other forms, a contraction of perilous ("dangerous; dreadful, terrible; morally corrupt, sinful, wicked; inauspicious, unlucky") — making it a doublet of perilous — from Old French perilleus, perillos, perillous, perilluse, perilleuse, perilleux ("very d...

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