About The Word Dangerous
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Dangerous
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What's The Definition Of Dangerous?
[adj] causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"
[adj] involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" Synonyms | Synonyms for Dangerous: breakneck | chanceful | chancy | critical | desperate | dicey | dodgy | grave | grievous | harmful | hazardous | insidious | kamikaxe(a) | on the hook(p) | parlous | perilous | precarious | risky | self-destructive | serious | severe | suicidal | touch-and-go | treacherous | unreliable | unsafe | venturesome | venturous Related Terms | Find terms related to Dangerous: alarming | bad | chance | chancy | critical | dangersome | desultory | explosive | fell | fraught with danger | grievous | hairy | haphazard | harmful | hazardous | hit-or-miss | iffy | infirm | insecure | insubstantial | jeopardous | major | menacing | parlous | periculous | perilous | precarious | provisional | random | rickety | risky | serious | shaky | shifting | shifty | slippery | temporary | tentative | threatening | ticklish | treacherous | ugly | uncertain | undependable | unfaithworthy | unhealthy | unreliable | unsafe | unsolid | unsound | unstable | unsteadfast | unsteady | unsubstantial | unsure | untrustworthy | wicked See Also | insecure | vulnerable Dangerous In Webster's Dictionary \Dan"ger*ous\, a. [OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous,
fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See {Danger}.]
1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous;
hazardous; unsafe.
Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The
ways are dangerous. --Shak.
It is dangerous to assert a negative. --Macaulay.
2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you dangerous To less than
gods. --Milton.
3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with
death. [Colloq.] --Forby. Bartlett.
4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.]
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My
lord to me is hard and dangerous. --Chaucer.
5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] ``Of his speech dangerous.''
--Chaucer. -- {Dan"ger*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Dan"ger*ous*ness}, n.
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