funambulatory adjective3 •Performing in the manner of a tightrope walker.In the Floralia, or Ludi Florales, held under Galba, there were funambulatory Elephants, as we are inform’d by Suetonius. — 1728 •Pertaining to tightrope walking •Narrow, like a tightrope.Tread softly and circumspectly in this funambulatory track and narrow path of goodness […] — 1716