dangerous

[ deyn-jer-uh s, deynj-ruh s ]

/ ˈdeɪn dʒər əs, ˈdeɪndʒ rəs /

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adjective

full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.

able or likely to cause physical injury: a dangerous criminal.

Origin of dangerous

1175–1225; Middle English da(u)ngerous domineering, fraught with danger < Old French dangereus threatening, difficult, equivalent to dangier (see danger) + -eus -ous

OTHER WORDS FROM dangerous

dan·ger·ous·ly, adverb dan·ger·ous·ness, noun non·dan·ger·ous, adjective non·dan·ger·ous·ly, adverb

non·dan·ger·ous·ness, noun qua·si-dan·ger·ous, adjective qua·si-dan·ger·ous·ly, adverb sem·i·dan·ger·ous, adjective sem·i·dan·ger·ous·ly, adverb sem·i·dan·ger·ous·ness, noun un·dan·ger·ous, adjective un·dan·ger·ous·ly, adverb

Words nearby dangerous

danger, danger angle, danger cave, danger man, danger money, dangerous, dangerous offender, dangle, dangleberry, dangling participle, dani

Example sentences from the Web for dangerously

Women are frequently reminded, too, that Barbie would be dangerously underweight if she were a real human.

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Complete protection from random harm is perhaps the most dangerously unrealistic of fantasies.

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The going rate for life jackets on board the dangerously rickety vessels tops $200, whether for men, women or children.

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But many careful observers believe that “dangerously stretched physicians” are actually what some people want.

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With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can be an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy.

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An angel of reasonableness seems to watch over him, even when he comes most dangerously near to an extravagance.

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With a little tremulous laugh, dangerously akin to tears, she raises her soft palm to his cheek and tries to press him—from her.

April's Lady |Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
The oval, tear-swept face was dangerously close to his now, and set his blood racing again in all the quick, hot madness of youth.

The Ebbing Of The Tide |Louis Becke
But should the Long Island Indians prevail, an inroad upon the main would bring them dangerously near to the new towns.

A short history of Rhode Island |George Washington Greene
At the storming of St. Sebastian he was dangerously wounded.

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British Dictionary definitions for dangerously

dangerous

/ (ˈdeɪndʒərəs) /

adjective

causing danger; perilous

Derived forms of dangerous

dangerously, adverb dangerousness, noun

Idioms and Phrases with dangerously

dangerous

see little knowledge is a dangerous thing; live dangerously.

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