perilsome

English

Etymology

From peril +‎ -some.

Adjective

perilsome (comparative more perilsome, superlative most perilsome)

1. Characterised or marked by peril; perilous
   • 1998, Paul Salzman, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:

     In which regard it was considered of by the common table of the cupbearers what a perilsome thing it was to let any stranger or out-dweller approach so near the precincts of the prince as the great chamber without examining what he was and giving him his pass.

   • 2014, Pat Rogers, Grub Street (Routledge Revivals): Studies in a Subculture:

     It did not need the Scourers or the Mohocks to make going abroad a perilsome affair.

Anagrams

• replisome