dangerous
Origin of dangerous
Related Words for dangerous
treacherous, unhealthy, threatening, deadly, unsafe, terrible, precarious, ugly, bad, critical, unstable, alarming, serious, nasty, fatal, perilous, risky, breakneck, chancy, delicateExamples from the Web for dangerous
Contemporary Examples of dangerous
An additonal 30,000 made it to Europe by other routes including commercial flights and dangerous overland passages.
The most dangerous attacks are those that undermine your perceived strength.
There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.
The Wolf of Wall Street is a dangerous, incendiary work of art.
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December 27, 2014
“I know that being a cop is dangerous but I must do it,” a friend remembered him saying, as reported in The New York Times.
Historical Examples of dangerous
What a dangerous character you'd be if you were sent to match silks!
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Philip was getting into a dangerous mood with his sentimentalism.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
My dear, I'm glad and thankful you've done with that dreadful, dangerous game.
Life and Death of Harriett FreanMay Sinclair
Such conduct is as wicked and dangerous to the state as any that can be conceived.
A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III]Benedict of Spinoza
He had got a dangerous game to play, and his plans were vague and shadowy.
Life in LondonEdwin Hodder
dangerous
- causing danger; perilous
Word Origin and History for dangerous
early 13c., "difficult, arrogant, severe" (the opposite of affable), from Anglo-French dangerous, Old French dangeros (12c., Modern French dangereux), from danger (see danger).
In Chaucer, it means "hard to please, reluctant to give;" sense of "full of danger, risky" is from late 15c. Other words used in this sense included dangersome (1560s), dangerful (1540s). Related: Dangerously.
Idioms and Phrases with dangerous
dangerous
see little knowledge is a dangerous thing; live dangerously.