dangersome

English

Etymology

From danger +‎ -some.

Adjective

dangersome (comparative more dangersome, superlative most dangersome)

1. Characterised or marked by danger; dangerous
   • 2008, Hamlin Garland, Her Mountain Lover:

     All that was familiar and trustworthy was back there, where the sun was sinking. To the east lay the unimaginable, the dangerous, and the wearisome; and a feeling of timidity came over his bold heart: this water world was dangersome.

   • 2011, Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne:

     “I'm just sayin' she's more dangersome than you think.” Han's head came up in surprise.

   • 2012, Hesba Stretton, Fern's Hollow:

     I'll trust you, sir; but my work is dangersome, and please God I should get killed, will you do the same for Martha and little Nan?

   • 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Hanging Judge:

     Going after him now, with the train slowed down and everyone standing up to get off, would be a dangersome waste of time.

   • 2012, Khalid Patel, Hollow Shotguns:

     “Fuck. Was. That?” “P-Prolly j-jus' a wolf” stuttered Zeth, before remembering the animal may be demonic, before further remembering even without possession wolves were dangersome.

   • 2015, Johnny Boggs, South by Southwest: A Western Story:

     “Just plain vile. I felt I should have been fighting, not doing road work. I ain't no logger. And dangersome, too, that work was. I seen one man from the 16th nigh chop his foot off when he mis-swung his axe. Couple others got killed when them big pines fell on them.

   • 2016, Karen Cushman, Grayling's Song:

     “Roots. Bark. Horror. This sounds dangersome,” said Desdemona Cork as she helped herself to a pork rib. “I like it not and will have no part of it.”