Meaning of Damoclean in English:

adjective

• Threatening and precarious.

  ‘the parties charged are left in the Damoclean situation of never knowing when an old charge may spring back to life’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Something perhaps a hundred times worse still hangs over us, but not the Damoclean existential threat the real zealots want.’
  • ‘The financial markets have roared back to only mirror the same Damoclean state that existed just before the 2008 crash.’
  • ‘But with Brussels demanding action against the disease and the Damoclean threat of a ban on exports still suspended above the livestock sector, the demand for action is ever more urgent.’
  • ‘The narrow 'Yes' side defeat left a Damoclean uncertainty about independence and its consequences hanging over the economy of Quebec for several years.’
  • ‘The root causes of the problem lie in the decision to build a new stadium and the Damoclean debt hanging over the club as a result.’