on a limb

ADJECTIVE

unsafe

Synonyms

STRONGEST

hazardous perilous risky treacherous uncertain unreliable unsound unstable untrustworthy

STRONG

insecure

WEAK

alarming chancy erratic explosive fearsome hanging by a thread on thin ice precarious shaky slippery threatening ticklish touch and go touchy undependable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

certain honest reliable safe secure stable strong sure true trustworthy

WEAK

harmless protected

Example Sentences

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I’ll go out on a limb and say whatever those young Saudis at the WWE were thinking, it wasn’t about joining ISIS.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

“I do not feel at all like I’m going out on a limb in saying that,” he concluded.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

I may go out even further on a limb.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2024

“I’m not going out on a limb to say they had Black friends in their homes,” she says.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Her yellow hair sticks straight up as she lifts a wiry leg and places it on a limb.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

on a limb

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