English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English dangerous ( “ difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger ” ) , daungerous Anglo-Norman Old French dangereus ( “ threatening, difficult ” ) , from dangier danger -ous
Pronunciation [ edit ] ( UK ) IPA (key ) : /ˈdeɪnʒ(ə)ɹəs/ , /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəs/ ( US ) IPA (key ) : /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒəɹəs/ , /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒɚəs/ , /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒɚs/ , /ˈdeɪnʒɹəs/ Hyphenation: dan‧ger‧ous Adjective [ edit ] dangerous (comparative more dangeroussuperlative most dangerous
Full of danger .
Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous .
“[…] 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.
(Can we date this quote?) John Milton
If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
( colloquial , dated ) In a condition of danger, as from illness ; threatened with death.( obsolete ) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
(Can we date this quote?) Geoffrey Chaucer
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous . ( obsolete ) Reserved; not affable.
Usage notes [ edit ] The standard comparative and superlative are more dangerous and most dangerous ; the forms dangerouser dangerousest
Synonyms [ edit ] ( full of danger ) :
Antonyms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
full of danger
Afar: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: gevaarlik
Albanian: i rrezikshëm
Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: خَطِر ( ḵaṭir )
Egyptian Arabic: خطير m ( xaṭir )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: վտանգավոր (hy) ( vtangavor )
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: peligrosu
Aymara: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: təhlükəli
Basque: arriskutsu
Belarusian: небяспе́чны ( njebjaspjéčny )
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Breton: dañjerus (br)
Bulgarian: опа́сен (bg) ( opásen ) , риско́ван (bg) ( riskóvan )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: perillós
Cherokee: ᎦᏂᏰᎬ ( ganiyegv )
Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 危險 (zh) , 危险 (zh) ( wēixiǎn )
Czech: nebezpečný (cs) m
Danish: farlig (da)
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: gevaarlijk (nl) , gevaarlijke (nl)
Elfdalian: farlin
Esperanto: danĝera
Estonian: ohtlik (et)
Ewe: please add this translation if you can
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: vandamikil hættisligur
Finnish: vaarallinen (fi)
French: dangereux (fr) m dangereuse (fr) f
Friulian: periculôs
Galician: perigoso
Georgian: საშიში ( sašiši ) , სახიფათო ( saxipato )
German: gefährlich (de)
Greek: επικίνδυνος (el) ( epikíndynos )
Ancient Greek: ἐπικίνδυνος m ( epikíndunos )
Greenlandic: navianartoq ulorianartoq
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Haitian Creole: danjere
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: makaʻuloa weliweli ʻia
Hebrew: מסוכן m ( mesukan ) , מסוכנת f ( mesukenet )
Hindi: ख़तरनाक f ( xataranāk ) , जोखिमी ( jōkhimī )
Hungarian: veszélyes (hu)
Icelandic: hættulegur (is)
Ido: danjeroza (io)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: berbahaya (id)
Interlingua: periculose
Interlingue: dangerosi
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 )
Javanese: mbebayani
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: មានគ្រោះថ្នាក់ ( mīən krūəh tnək )
Korean: 위험 (ko) ( wiheom )
Ladino: perikolozo
Lao: ມີອັນຕະລາຍ ( mī ’an ta lāi )
Latin: perīculōsus (la)
Latvian: bīstams
Lithuanian: pavojingas (lt) m pavojinga f
Luganda: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: geféierlech
Macedonian: опасен ( opasen )
Malay: berbahaya
Maltese: perikolużi m
Maori: mōrearea
Marathi: घातक ( ghātak )
Mirandese: peligroso
Mongolian: аюултай (mn) ( ajuultaj )
Norman: dangéreux
Northern Sami: váralaš
Norwegian:
Bokmål: farlig farefull
Nynorsk: farefull
Novial: please add this translation if you can
Old English: cwildbære bealu bealo frecendlic frecenful frecne pleolic plihtlic fræ cenful cne frecenlic
Oriya: please add this translation if you can
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: پرخطر (fa) , خطرناک (fa) ( xatarnâk )
Polish: niebezpieczny (pl) , groźny (pl) m
Portuguese: perigoso (pt)
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: periculos (ro)
Romansch: privlus ( Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader ) , prigulus ( Sursilvan ) , prievlus ( Sutsilvan, Puter ) , privlous ( Surmiran )
Russian: опа́сный (ru) ( opásnyj ) , риско́ванный (ru) ( riskóvannyj )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: опасан
Roman: opasan (sh)
Sicilian: piriculusu (scn) , priculusu (scn)
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: nebezpečný
Slovene: nevaren (sl)
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: peligroso (es)
Sumerian: [script needed] ( aksu )
Swedish: farlig (sv) , farligt (sv)
Tagalog: mapanganib delikado
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: ప్రమాదకరమైన (te) ( pramādakaramaina )
Thai: วิกฤต (th) ( wí-grìt ) , อันตราย (th) ( an-dtà-raai )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: tehlikeli (tr)
Turkmen: howply
Ukrainian: небезпе́чний ( nebezpéčnyj )
Urdu: جوکھمی ( jōkhimī ) , خطرناک ( xataranāk )
Uyghur: خەتەرلىك ( xeterlik )
Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: nguy hiểm (vi)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: dandjreus (wa) m dandjreuse f riskeus (wa) m riskeuse f
Welsh: peryglus (cy)
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: געפערלעך ( geferlik )
Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: please add this translation if you can
causing danger, ready to do harm or injury
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