About The Word Perilous
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Perilous
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What's The Definition Of Perilous?
[adj] 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Perilous: dangerous | parlous | precarious | touch-and-go | unsafe Related Terms | Find terms related to Perilous: alarming | bad | chancy | critical | dangerous | dangersome | delicate | desultory | explosive | fraught with danger | hairy | hazardous | infirm | insecure | insubstantial | jeopardous | menacing | parlous | periculous | precarious | provisional | risky | serious | shaky | shifting | shifty | slippery | susceptible | temporary | tentative | threatening | ticklish | tottery | touchy | treacherous | ugly | uncertain | undependable | unfaithworthy | unhealthy | unreliable | unsafe | unsolid | unsound | unstable | unsteadfast | unsteady | unsubstantial | unsure | untrustworthy | vulnerable | wicked See Also | Perilous In Webster's Dictionary \Per"il*ous\, a. [OF. perillous, perilleus, F.
p['e]rilleux, L. periculosus. See {Peril}.] [Written also
{perillous}.]
1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous;
hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.
Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. --Milton.
2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. [Obs.] --Latimer.
For I am perilous with knife in hand. --Chaucer.
-- {Per"il*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Per"il*ous*ness}, n.
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