'Dangerous' definitions:
Definition of 'dangerous'
From: WordNet
adjective
Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" [syn: dangerous, unsafe] [ant: safe]
adjective
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: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening]
Definition of 'Dangerous'
From: GCIDE
- Dangerous \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. [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. [1913 Webster]
- If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] --Forby. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] "Of his speech dangerous." --Chaucer. -- {Dan"ger*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Dan"ger*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dangerous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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