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Webster 1913 Edition
Dangerous
Dan′ger-ous
,Adj.
1.
Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;
The ways are
The ways are
dangerous
. Shakespeare
It is
dangerous
to assert a negative. Macaulay.
2.
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you
To less than gods.
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
– My lord to me is hard and
dangerous
. Chaucer.
Dan′ger-ous-ly
, adv.
Dan′ger-ous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dangerous
DANGEROUS
,Adj.
1.
Perilous; hazardous; exposing to loss; unsafe; full of risk; as a dangerous voyage; a dangerous experiment.2.
Creating danger; causing risk of evil; as a dangerous man; a dangerous conspiracy.Definition 2024
dangerous
dangerous
English
Adjective
dangerous (comparative more dangerous, superlative most dangerous)
- Full of danger.
- Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
- Forby. Bartlett.
- (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
- My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
- (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
- Of his speech dangerous
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Usage notes
The standard comparative and superlative are more dangerous and most dangerous; the forms dangerouser and dangerousest exist but are nonstandard.
Synonyms
(full of danger):
Antonyms
Related terms
Translations
full of danger
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causing danger, ready to do harm or injury