precarious, treacherous, dangerous, dicey, dire, tricky, risky, daunting, turbulent, hellish, unpropitious, parlous, inhospitable, disastrous, unstable, difficult, harrowing, grim, chaotic, unforgiving, tenuous, calamitous, frightening, unpredictable, hazardous, challenging, bleak, unpromising, problematical, murky, foolhardy, tortuous, terrifying, arduous, problematic, untenable, nightmarish, unenviable, torturous, rockiest, troublesome, bumpy, unnerving, pathless, slippery, uncharted, fragile, roughest, uncertain, stormy, unsettling, troubling, chancy, wrenching, improbable, unchartered, delicate, hopeless, complicated, tumultuous, deadly, stressful, unpalatable, tense, propitious, grueling, painful, dire straits, unpleasant, ominous, peculiar, bizarre, wobbly, uncongenial, desperate, scary, starkest, unwise, unnavigable, unpopular, darkest, discomforting, farcical, dizzying, straitened, circuitous, bewildering, dreadful, awkward, desolate, exasperating, wretched, miserable, fractious, brave, icy, precipitous, muddy, unrewarding, shakier, worrisome, portentous, pleasing, avail, contrary, heavy, impatient, inconsistent, natural, open, partake, read, serve, advan, advanced, ancient, anybody, anyone, be, can, chargeable, convincing, toilsome, ticklish, frustrating, trying, fatiguing, gruelling, wearisome, wracking, racking

melodramatic

touch-and-go, unsafe