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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dangerous \dan"gerous\, a. oe., haughty, difficult, dangerous,
fr. of. dangereus, f. dangereux. see danger.
1. attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous;
hazardous; unsafe.
1913 webster
our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;
the ways are dangerous. --shak.
1913 webster
it is dangerous to assert a negative. --macaulay.
1913 webster
2. causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
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if they incline to think you dangerous
to less than gods. --milton.
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3. in a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with
death. colloq. --forby. bartlett.
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4. hard to suit; difficult to please. obs.
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my wages ben full strait, and eke full small;
my lord to me is hard and dangerous. --chaucer.
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5. reserved; not affable. obs. "of his speech dangerous."
--chaucer. -- dan"gerously, adv. --
dan"gerousness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
danger dan"gerously dan"gerousness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
dangerous
adj 1: involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm;
"a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge";
"unemployment reached dangerous proportions" syn: unsafe
ant: safe
2: 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"; "a
life-threatening disease" syn: grave, grievous, serious,
severe, life-threatening
see also:
unsafe safe grave grievous serious severe
life-threatening
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
57 moby thesaurus words for "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
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