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 ] Adjective [ edit ] dangerous (comparative dangerouser or more dangeroussuperlative dangerousest or most dangerous
Full of danger .
Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous .
1910 , Emerson Hough , chapter 1, The Purchase Price
“[…] 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
If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
( colloquial , dated ) In a condition of danger, as from illness ; threatened with death.
Forby. Bartlett.
( obsolete ) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
Geoffrey Chaucer
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous .
( obsolete ) Reserved; not affable.
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Antonyms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
full of danger
Afar: please add this translation if you can Afrikaans: gevaarlike
Albanian: i rrezikshëm
Amharic: please add this translation if you can Arabic: خطر xáṭir )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Armenian: վտանգավոր vtangavor )
Assamese: please add this translation if you can Asturian: peligrosu
Aymara: please add this translation if you can Azeri: təhlükəli
Belarusian: небяспечны njebjaspjéčny )
Bengali: please add this translation if you can Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: опасен (bg) (opásen ), рискован (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) (wéixiǎn ), 危险 (zh) (wēixiǎn )
Czech: nebezpečný m
Danish: farlig
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: gevaarlijk (nl) , gevaarlijke (nl)
Esperanto: danĝera
Estonian: ohtlik (et)
Ewe: please add this translation if you can Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can Faroese: vandamikil
Finnish: vaarallinen (fi)
French: dangereux (fr) m dangereuse (fr) f
Friulian: please add this translation if you can Galician: perigoso
Georgian: საშიში sašiši )
German: gefährlich (de)
Greek: επικίνδυνος (el) (epikíndynos )
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: please add this translation if you can Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Interlingue: please add this translation if you can 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 )
Jèrriais: dangéreux
Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: មានគ្រោះថ្នាក់ mīən krūəh tnək )
Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
Kirundi: please add this translation if you can Korean: 위험 (ko) (wiheom )
Latin: perīculōsus (la)
Latvian: bīstams (lv)
Lithuanian: pavojingas (lt) m pavojinga f
Lojban: ckape
Luganda: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: опасен ópasen )
Maltese: perikolużi m
Maori: mōrearea
Marathi: please add this translation if you can Mirandese: peligroso
Mongolian: аюултай (mn) (ajuultaj )
Norwegian: farlig
Novial: please add this translation if you can 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)
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: опасный (ru) (opásnyj ), рискованный (ru) (riskóvannyj )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: опасан
Roman: opasan
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?] (aksu )
Swedish: farlig (sv) , farligt (sv)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: ప్రమాదకరమైన (te) (pramādakaramaina )
Thai: วิกฤต (th) (wík-rít )
Turkish: tehlikeli (tr)
Turkmen: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: небезпечний nebespéčnyj )
Urdu: جوكھمي jōkhimī ), خطرناک xataranāk )
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can Uzbek: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: nguy hiểm (vi)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can Walloon: please add this translation if you can 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
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