Thesaurus: dangerous

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1. a. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
2. a. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
3. a. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
4. a. Hard to suit; difficult to please.
5. a. Reserved; not affable.
6. adj. involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
7. adj. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
8. 1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. Milton. 3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett. 4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.] My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. Chaucer. 5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] "Of his speech dangerous." Chaucer. -- Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv. -- Dan"ger*ous*ness, n.
9. j:100 a. involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm s. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm