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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
For Bienvenu, the reliance on AI in the creative process is dangerous because it risks allowing the imagination to wither.
From Barron's
All the years of being told it was dangerous have left a mark and I’m shaking as I reach up to open the hatch.
From Literature
"I pray that my colleagues will vote to end this dangerous and unnecessary war that has already resulted in the loss of six service members and injured others."
From BBC
“That horseshoe shape of the Strait keeps ships in the most dangerous area for a long time.”
Canada’s prime minister said the situation now is too dangerous to attempt a large-scale repatriation of its tens of thousands of citizens in the region.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
