adjective
Other Word Forms
- dangerously adverb
- dangerousness noun
- nondangerous adjective
- nondangerously adverb
- nondangerousness noun
- quasi-dangerous adjective
- quasi-dangerously adverb
- semidangerous adjective
- semidangerously adverb
- semidangerousness noun
- undangerous adjective
- undangerously adverb
Etymology
Origin of dangerous
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English da(u)ngerous “domineering, fraught with danger,” from Old French dangereus “threatening, difficult,” equivalent to dangier ( danger ) + -eus -ous
Example Sentences
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Doctors say they have achieved the previously impossible - restoring sight and preventing blindness in people with a rare but dangerous eye conditon called hypotony.
From BBC
Posted signage throughout the terminal warns everyone who lands at a New York airport about overpriced and potentially dangerous scam rides.
From Salon
Mr Barrington said Wolves of Wiltshire have specific licenses that allow them to care for the animals, because they were an "unknown quantity, and they could have potentially required a dangerous animals license".
From BBC
High temperatures and dry winds combined to form some of the most dangerous bushfire conditions since the "Black Summer" blazes.
From Barron's
The justices said the domestic abuser ban fit in a larger historical tradition of banning dangerous people from guns — explicitly rejecting the idea that lawmakers today must show a “historical twin.”
From Los Angeles Times
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