Synonyms of the word dangerous


DANGEROUSBREAKNECK - CHANCEFUL - CHANCY - CRITICAL - DESPERATE - DICEY - DODGY - GRAVE - GRIEVOUS - HARMFUL - HAZARDOUS - INSECURE - INSIDIOUS - LIFE-THREATENING - MORDACIOUS - PARLOUS - PERILOUS - PRECARIOUS - RISKY - SELF-DESTRUCTIVE - SERIOUS - SEVERE - SUICIDAL - TOUCH-AND-GO - TREACHEROUS - UNRELIABLE - UNSAFE - VULNERABLE - WILD

dangerous

  • adj. Full of danger.
  • adj. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
  • adj. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
  • adj. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
  • adj. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.

breakneck

  • adj. Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
  • n. A fall that breaks the neck.
  • n. A dangerous steep place from which one could fall.

chanceful

  • adj. (obsolete) hazardous.

chancy

  • adj. uncertain, risky, hazardous.
  • adj. subject to chance; random.

critical

  • adj. Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
  • adj. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
  • adj. Extremely important.
  • adj. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
  • adj. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition…
  • adj. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
  • adj. Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes…
  • n. A critical value, factor, etc.
  • n. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

desperate

  • adj. Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
  • adj. Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
  • adj. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
  • adj. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
  • adj. Extremely intense.
  • adj. In need of something very much.

dicey

  • adj. Fraught with danger.
  • adj. Of uncertain, risky outcome.
  • adj. Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
  • adj. (slang) Nauseating, rank.

dodgy

  • adj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) evasive and shifty.
  • adj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) unsound and unreliable.
  • adj. dishonest.
  • adj. risky.
  • adj. deviant.
  • adj. uncomfortable and weird.

grave

  • n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
  • n. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
  • n. death, destruction.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice…
  • adj. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
  • adj. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
  • adj. Low in pitch, tone etc.
  • adj. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
  • n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.

grievous

  • adj. Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
  • adj. Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.

harmful

  • adj. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious.

hazardous

  • adj. Risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.
  • adj. Exposing to loss or evil.
  • adj. Of or involving chance.

insecure

  • adj. Not secure.
  • adj. Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations.

insidious

  • adj. Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
  • adj. Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
  • adj. (nonstandard) Treacherous.

life-threatening

  • adj. Endangering the continued life of the subject.

mordacious

  • adj. Biting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive.
  • adj. sharp or caustic in style or tone.
  • adj. Prone to biting, aggressive (of an animal etc.).
  • adj. Sharp in intent, sarcastic.

parlous

  • adj. Attended with peril; dangerous; risky.
  • adj. Dire, terrible, appalling.
  • adj. (obsolete) Dangerously clever or cunning.
  • adv. (archaic) Very, extremely.

perilous

  • adj. Dangerous, full of peril.

precarious

  • adj. (comparable) Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.
  • adj. (law) Depending on the intention of another.
  • adj. (dentistry) Relating to incipient caries.

risky

  • adj. Dangerous, involving risks.

self-destructive

  • adj. That causes injury to oneself or harm to one's interests.

serious

  • adj. Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition; earnest; solemn.
  • adj. Important; weighty; not insignificant.
  • adj. Really intending what is said; in earnest; not jocular or deceiving.

severe

  • adj. Very bad or intense.
  • adj. Strict or harsh.
  • adj. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

suicidal

  • adj. Pertaining to suicide.
  • adj. (of a person) Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
  • adj. (informal) Extremely reckless.
  • n. someone suicidal, someone likely to kill themselves.

touch-and-go

  • adj. Alternative form of touch and go.
  • n. (aviation) A landing on a runway immediately followed by a takeoff without an intervening full stop.

treacherous

  • adj. Exhibiting treachery.
  • adj. Deceitful; inclined to betray.
  • adj. Unreliable; dangerous.

unreliable

  • adj. Not reliable.

unsafe

  • adj. Not safe; dangerous.

vulnerable

  • adj. More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
  • adj. (computing) More likely to be exposed to malicious programs or viruses.

wild

  • adj. Untamed; not domesticated.
  • adj. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
  • adj. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
  • adj. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
  • adj. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
  • adj. Enthusiastic.
  • adj. Inaccurate.
  • adj. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
  • adj. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
  • adv. Inaccurately; not on target.
  • n. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially…

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