dangerous

§English

§Etymology

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪndʒəɹəs/

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§Adjective

dangerous (comparative dangerouser or more dangerous, superlative dangerousest or most dangerous)

1. 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.”

2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
   • John Milton (1608-1674)

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

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

   Forby. Bartlett.

4. (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.

5. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)

     Of his speech dangerous

§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

• Afar: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: gevaarlike
• Albanian: i rrezikshëm
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: خطر (xáṭir)

  Egyptian Arabic: خطير m (xaṭir)

• 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 (cs) 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: periculôs
• 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)
• Malay: berbahaya
• Maltese: perikolużi m
• Maori: mōrearea
• Marathi: घातक (ghātak)
• 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 (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)
• 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: جوکھمی (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: dandjreus (wa) m, dandjreuse f, riskeus 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

§Anagrams

• nose guard, noseguard