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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English dangerous (“difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger”), daungerous, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French dangereus (“threatening, difficult”), from dangier. Equivalent to danger + -ous.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪnʒ(ə)ɹəs/, /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəs/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒəɹəs/, /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒɚəs/, /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒɚs/, /ˈdeɪnʒɹəs/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: dan‧ger‧ous
Adjective[edit]
dangerous (comparative more dangerous, superlative most dangerous)
- Full of danger.
- Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0029:
- “[…] 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
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (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.
- (Can we date this quote?) Geoffrey Chaucer
- (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.
- (Can we date this quote?) Geoffrey Chaucer
- Of his speech dangerous
- (Can we date this quote?) Geoffrey Chaucer
Usage notes[edit]
The standard comparative and superlative are more dangerous and most dangerous; the forms dangerouser and dangerousest exist but are nonstandard.
Synonyms[edit]
(full of danger):
- hazardous
- perilous
- risky
- unsafe
- See also Thesaurus:dangerous
Antonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
full of danger
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causing danger, ready to do harm or injury
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