Origin: Latin suffix -ous
Parlous has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
fraught with danger
"dangerous waters"
"a parlous journey on stormy seas"
"a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"
"the precarious life of an undersea diver"
"dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.
Extremely, very.