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Definition of Dangerous
1. Adjective. Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm. "Unemployment reached dangerous proportions"
Similar to: Breakneck, Chanceful, Chancy, Dicey, Dodgy, Desperate, Hazardous, Risky, Wild, Insidious, Mordacious, On The Hook, Parlous, Perilous, Precarious, Touch-and-go, Self-destructive, Suicidal, Treacherous, Unreliable
Also: Insecure, Unsafe, Vulnerable
Derivative terms: Danger, Danger, Dangerousness
Antonyms: Safe
2. Adjective. Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. "A life-threatening disease"
Similar to: Critical
Derivative terms: Dangerousness, Seriousness, Severeness
Definition of Dangerous
1. a. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Definition of Dangerous
1. Adjective. Full of danger. ¹
2. Adjective. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. ¹
3. Adjective. (colloquial dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. ¹
4. Adjective. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please. ¹
5. Adjective. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dangerous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dangerous
Literary usage of Dangerous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"place dangerous? hath it not hindered many in their pi/- grimage ? DEMAS. Not very
dangerous, except to those that are careless. But withal he blushed as he ..."
2. The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain (2001)
"Well, they ought to be dangerous. They carry a rusty old weather-beaten flintlock
gun, with a barrel that is longer than themselves; it has no sights on it; ..."
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