dangerous

English

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Adjective

dangerous (comparative more dangerous, superlative most dangerous)

1. Full of danger.
2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

   If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods — Milton.

3. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

   Forby. Bartlett.

4. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.

   My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous. — Chaucer.

5. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.

   Of his speech dangerous — Chaucer.

Synonyms

(full of danger):

• hazardous
• perilous
• risky
• unsafe
• See also Wikisaurus:dangerous

Antonyms

• (full of danger): safe

Related terms

• danger
• dangerously

Translations

full of danger

Afrikaans: gevaarlike (af) Albanian: i rrezikshëm Arabic: خطر (ar) (kháTir) Armenian: վտանգավոր (hy) (vtangavor) Bulgarian: опасен (bg), рискован (bg) Catalan: perillós (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 危險 (cmn) (wéixiǎn), 危险 (cmn) (wēixiǎn) Croatian: opasan (hr) n. Czech: nebezpečný (cs) m. Danish: farlig (da) Dutch: gevaarlijk, gevaarlijke Esperanto: danĝera (eo) Estonian: ohtlik (et) Finnish: vaarallinen (fi) French: dangereux (fr) m., dangereuse (fr) f. Georgian: საშიში (ka) (sašiši) German: gefährlich (de) Greek: επικίνδυνος m., επικίνδυνη f., επικίνδυνο n. Haitian Creole: danjere Hebrew: מסוכן (mesukan) m., מסוכנת (mesukenet) f. Hindi: ख़तरनाक (hi) (khhataranāka) f. Hungarian: veszélyes (hu) Icelandic: hættulegur (is) Ido: danjeroza Irish: dáinséarach, contúirteach

Italian: pericoloso (it) m., pericolosa (it) f. Japanese: 危険 (ja) (きけん, kiken), 危ない (ja) (あぶない, abunai) Khmer: មានគ្រោះថ្នាក់ (mīən krūəh tnək) Korean: 위험 (wiheom) Latin: perīculōsus (la) Latvian: bīstams (lv) Lithuanian: pavojingas (lt) m., pavojinga (lt) f. Maltese: perikolużi (mt) m. Maori: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: аюултай (mn) (ayuultay) Norwegian: farlig (no) Persian: پرخطر (fa) Polish: niebezpieczny (pl) m., niebezpieczna (pl) f., niebezpieczne (pl) n. Portuguese: perigoso (pt) m., perigosa (pt) f. Romanian: periculos (ro) Russian: опасный (ru) (opásnyj) Serbian: опасан (sr) (ópasan) Spanish: peligroso (es) m. Sumerian: aksu Swedish: farlig (sv), farligt (sv) Telugu: ప్రమాదకరమైన (pramaadakaramaina) Thai: วิกฤต (wík-rít) Turkish: tehlikeli (tr) Urdu: پرخطر (ur) Vietnamese: nguy hiểm (vi) Welsh: peryglus (cy)

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