Meaning of DANGEROUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'deynjurus
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | 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 |
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| | Antonyms: | | safe | | |
| | See Also: | | insecure, vulnerable | |
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| | Definition: | |  Dangerous
Determined to stop the Earl of Angelstone from engaging her hot-headed brother in their scheduled duel, Prudence Merryweather sneaks into the earl's home to confront him and finds herself falling in love. Original. more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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