Dangerous

Definition: Dangerous

Dangerous

Adjective

1. Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions".

2. Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dangerous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Dangerous \Dan"ger*ous\, adjective. [Old English expression, haughty, difficult, dangerous, from the Old French expression dangereus, French dangereux. See Danger.]. (references)

Synonyms: Dangerous

Danger

Adjective: in danger; Noun: endangered; Verb: fraught with danger; dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous; unsafe, unprotected; (safe, protect; );insecure. untrustworthy; built upon.sand, on a sandy basis; wildcat.

Disease

Fatal disease; (hopeless); dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.

Evil doer

Savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado; Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, pug-ugly, Red Skin, tough; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief.

Pitfall

Ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort; firebrand, hornet's nest.

Safety

Safe and sound; (preserved);scathless; (perfect); unhazarded; not dangerous.

Crosswords: Dangerous

You know, the elderly, although slow, and dangerous behind the wheel, can serve a purpose (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.)

Before you go however, I very much regret to inform you that a dangerous development has recently been brought to my notice (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

Damaged people are dangerous; they know they can survive (Damage; writing credit: David Hare.)

Come on Sam Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo.)

Hold on tight, you know she's a little bit dangerous (Dangerous; performing artist: Roxette)

Cause it's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

A dangerous dance (I've Been In Love Before; performing artist: Cutting Crew)

On ways of living such a dangerous life (Black Cat; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

This is a dangerous liaison (The Remedy (I Won't Worry); performing artist: JASON MRAZ)

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. (references; author: Mark Twain)

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. (references; author: unknown)

Space is a dangerous place, especially if it's between your ears! (references; author: unknown)

Dangerous Invitations (2002)

Columbo: The Most Dangerous Match (1973)

Dangerous Relations (1973)

Thirty Dangerous Seconds (1972)

These Men Are Dangerous (1969)

Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) (performing artist: Mike + The Mechanics)

Dangerous (performing artist: Roxette)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dangerous (reference)

• Dangerous Wonder (reference)

• Robert Young Pelton's the World's Most Dangerous Places (World's Most Dangerous Places) (reference)

• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Dangerous Goods Focus Guide (reference)

• Dangerous Goods Newsletter - English Ed (reference)

• Dangerous Goods Regulations (reference)

• Dangerous Goods Shipper - Diskette (reference)

• Saxs Dangerous Properties Of Industrial Materials - Cd-rom (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dangerous Liaisons (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dangerous Graces (reference)

• Dangerous [LIVE] (reference)

• Dangerous Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Dangerous Connection (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Hidden & Dangerous 2 (reference)

• Mickey's Dangerous Chase (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The bacterium F. tularensis is considered to be a dangerous potential biological weapon because of its extreme infectivity, ease of dissemination, and substantial capacity to cause illness and death. Credit: CDC.

Mucormycosis is a dangerous fungal infection usually occurring in the immunocompromised patient, affecting the regions of the eye, nose, and through its growth and destruction of the periorbital tissues, it will eventually invade the brain cavity. Credit: CDC.

Power source for hoisting steel Jack up truck and use "fifth wheel" This could be dangerous - at least one leg broken by getting wrapped up Safety modifications made to system after individual severely injured Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Cave-in section of roof of a lava tube. This is why walking on open lava fields can be quite dangerous. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A 400 kilogram (880 pounds) tuna is landed by eight fishermen. This is a difficult and dangerous time when synchronized effort is required to land the tuna. Poor timing can cause the poles to break and a fisherman to land in the water. Some fishermen have died in this manner after falling overboard and being struck by the tuna tails. Credit: Fisheries.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A deer tick - Ixodes dammini - is quite abundant on Prudence Island. These small creatures can be quite dangerous to humans as they are carriers of Lyme disease. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Microburst (CSU) - extremely dangerous for aircraft. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

A sea snake caught during dipnetting operations off the NOAA Ship McARTHUR during STAR 2000. These snakes are poisonous and very dangerous. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Sector of GOES full disk composite infrared and visible image indicates areas of high convection and potentially violent weather. A tornado occurred at Paris in the lower left corner of the cloud in Texas. In this image, the infra-red sensor is actually measuring the temperature of very cold cloud tops which is a sign of major convective activity and dangerous weather. Credit: NOAA in Space.

A boa constrictor in the bushes of Isla Gorgona. The island has numerous snakes making it dangerous to proceed into the jungle or even to camp overnight. Credit: Small World.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is an inconvenience, I confess, that attends all governments whatsoever, when the governors have brought it to this pass, to be generally suspected of their people; the most dangerous state which they can possibly put themselves in. (Second Treatise of Government)

Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of international conventions existing or hereafter to be agreed upon, the Members of the League: (a) will endeavour to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women, and children, both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend, and for that purpose will establish and maintain the necessary international organisations; (b) undertake to secure just treatment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control; (c) will entrust the League with the general supervision over the execution of agreements with regard to the traffic in women and children, and the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs; (d) will entrust the League with the general supervision of the trade in arms and ammunition with the countries in which the control of this traffic is necessary in the common interest; (e) will make provision to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all Members of the League. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Here was a dangerous opening

They are not dangerous.

Here is the head of that ignoble traitor, The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings

And new waves were on the way, new waves of the dispossessed and the homeless, hardened, intent, and dangerous.

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

MDMA can be extremely dangerous in high doses. (references)

Others may find acceptance in a dangerous crowd. (references)

Benign CNS tumors can nevertheless be dangerous. (references)

Business

The authorities have sought to block what they consider dangerous material on the Internet. (references)

Shanks & McEwen also owns Rechem Ltd., a specialist incinerator of the most dangerous categories of waste. (references)

These provide for the right to refuse to perform dangerous or unhealthy work without jeopardizing employment. (references)

Children

Marshall Islands

When these individuals demonstrate dangerous behavior, they are imprisoned and visited by a doctor. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

The northern Caucasus region continued to be dangerous for journalists. (references)

Tajikistan

Resettlement was voluntary; IDP's were not returned forcibly to dangerous conditions. (references)

Economic History

Somalia

Travel into and within Somalia is extremely dangerous. (references)

Poland

Rural road travel is particularly difficult and very dangerous at night. (references)

Croatia

Additional days of leave are required for employees performing dangerous tasks and for minors. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

Some of those who escaped during the year were highly dangerous criminals. (references)

South Africa

C-MAX prisons are designed to hold the country's most dangerous criminals. (references)

Guyana

The Brickdam lockup in Georgetown has poor sanitation and dangerous conditions. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

Workers can refuse dangerous work situations without risk of penalty. (references)

KUWAIT

Legal protections exist for workers who file complaints about dangerous work situations. (references)

Western Sahara

They are rudimentary, except for a prohibition on the employment of women in dangerous occupations. (references)

Trade

Portugal

Dangerous products must be marked according to the instructions of the UN. (references)

Argentina

Imports of any type of dangerous residues (chemicals) are prohibited by law 24051. (references)

Kazakhstan

Narcotics, firearms, and other dangerous goods can be imported, subject to licensing. (references)

Travel

Botswana

Driving at night on rural highways is dangerous and should be avoided. (references)

Georgia

Travel in the separatist-controlled region of Abkhazia remains dangerous. (references)

Botswana

It is dangerous for visitors to travel alone at night on foot in unfamiliar places. (references)

Women

Turkmenistan

Women are restricted from working in some dangerous and environmentally unsafe jobs. (references)

Ukraine

However, despite implementation of a government program to combat dangerous labor, these laws remain poorly enforced. (references)

Guinea

However, infibulation, the most dangerous form of FGM, still is performed in the forest region, but less frequently than in previous years. (references)

Worker Rights

Colombia

The work is dangerous and the hours are long. (references)

Colombia

Approximately 25 percent are employed in potentially dangerous activities. (references)

Albania

Actual conditions in the workplace generally were very poor and often dangerous. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dangerous": be on dangerous ground ♦ Commission for the Prevention of Disasters due to Dangerous Substances ♦ controlled dangerous air cargo ♦ dangerous : past cure ♦ dangerous bank ♦ Dangerous Behavior ♦ dangerous behaviour ♦ dangerous criminal ♦ dangerous fellow ♦ dangerous goods ♦ dangerous goods recapitulation message ♦ dangerous liquid ♦ dangerous location ♦ dangerous noise ♦ dangerous process ♦ dangerous product ♦ dangerous situation ♦ dangerous undertaking ♦ dangerous work ♦ immediately dangerous for life and health ♦ immediately dangerous to life or health concentration ♦ not dangerous ♦ restricted dangerous air cargo ♦ steer a dangerous course ♦ vessel carrying dangerous or polluting goods. Additional references.

Beginning with "dangerous": dangerous-looking, dangerous-sounding.

Ending with "dangerous": ever-dangerous, non-dangerous, potentially-dangerous.

Albanian

i rrezikshëm (breakneck, critical, endangering, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, high risk, malign, nasty, parlous, perilous, pestilent, risky, risque, touch and go, unchancy, unsafe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محفوف بالخطر (parlous), ‏خطير (acute, critical, eventful, grave, grievous, hazardous, heavy, important, irresistible, momentous, redoubtable, risky, risque, serious, severe, significant, ticklish, unsafe, weighty), ‏خطر (adventurous, advise, awkward, challenge, come, critical, danger, embargo, fear, give smb. notice, hazard, importance, jeopardy, parlous, peril, perilous, poisonous, prohibition, proscription, risk, risky, unhealthy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky). (various references)

Chinese 

隉 , 阽 , 殆 (almost, endanger, only, perilous, probably), 危险 (Danger, Hazard, Peril, Perilous, risky), 危險 (danger). (various references)

Czech

vážný (austere, earnest, good, grave, major, mellow, pensive, portly, serious, solemn, solid, stern, straight, strong, wistful), tìžký (bad, chunky, difficult, grave, grievous, hard, heady, heavy, labored, laboured, man-sized, ponderous, severe, stodgy, thick, uphill, weighty), riskantní (adventurous, chancy, Dicey, Dickey, dodgy, hazardous, precarious, risky, touch and go, unsound), nebezpečný, nebezpeèný (grave, hairy, hazardous, perilous, risky, ugly, unsafe). (various references)

Danish

farlig. (various references)

Dutch

link. (various references)

Esperanto

danĝera. (various references)

Faeroese

hættisligur. (various references)

Finnish

vaaranalainen (exposed to danger, threatened), vaarallinen (critical, hazardous, perilous, risky). (various references)

French

dangereux. (various references)

Frisian

nuodlik, gefaarlik, faai. (various references)

German

gefährlich (dangerously, desperate, formidable, hazardous, nastily, perilous, perilously, pestilent, pestilently, reckless, risky, savage, savagely, unhealthy, unsafe). (various references)

Greek 

κινδυνώδησ (perilous, risky), ριψοκίνδυνος (risky), επικίνδυνοσ (desperate, hazardous, nasty, perilous, risky, unsafe, wild cat), επικίνδυνος (hazardous, perilous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מביא נזק, מסוכן (fell, hazardous, mean, perilous, precarious, risky, unhealthy, unsafe). (various references)

Hungarian

veszélyes (baleful, fraught with danger, have teeth in it, hazardous, insecure, malignant, nasty, parlous, perilous, risky, sticky, unsafe). (various references)

Indonesian

menggawatkan (endanger, precarious, render critical), gawat (critical, grave, serious), berbahaya (harmful, hazardous, noxious, risky). (various references)

Italian

pericoloso (breakneck, hazarding, hazardous, nasty, perilous, risky, treacherous, unsafe, vicious). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

際どい (close, delicate, hazardous, risky, suggestive), 物騒 (disturbed, insecure), 危ない, 危うい (critical, grave, uncertain, unreliable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きわどい (close, delicate, hazardous, risky, suggestive), ぶっそう (Buddhist funeral, Buddhist priest, disturbed, insecure), あぶなっかしい (close, critical, grave, limping, narrow, uncertain, unreliable, watch out), あぶない (close, critical, grave, limping, narrow, uncertain, unreliable, watch out!), あやうい (close, critical, grave, limping, narrow, uncertain, unreliable, watch out!), やばい , けんなん (steep, the calamity of being killed by the sword), けんのん (insecure, risky), けんあく (gloomy, perilous, serious, stormy, threatening). (various references)

Korean 

위험한 (hazardous, Perilous, risky, speculative, unsafe). (various references)

Malay

berbahaya. (various references)

Manx

gaueagh (hazardous, jeopardous, risky, venturesome), danjeyragh (parlous, perilous), cryggylagh (perilous). (various references)

Norwegian

farlig. (various references)

Papiamen

peligroso. (various references)

Pig Latin

angerousday.(various references)

Polish

niebezpieczny. (various references)

Portuguese

perigoso (adventure, adventurous, breakneck, chanceful, critical, harmful, hazardous, hot, insecure, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, touch and go, touch-and-go, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, venturesome). (various references)

Romanian

riscant (chancy, dare devil, hazardous, reckless, risky, temerarious, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), primejdios (breakneck, dangerously, hazardous, insecure, perilous, perilously, perniciously, pestiferous), periculos (awkward, baleful, breakneck, dangerously, grave, parlous, perilous, perniciously, risky, trappy, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat). (various references)

Russian 

опасный (breakneck, chanceful, dicey, endangering, grave, hazardous, heroic, hot, nasty, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, trappy, unsafe, virulent). (various references)

Scottish

cunnartach (risky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

opasan (adventurous, breakneck, girded, hazardous, parlous, perilous, pernicious, tight, treacherous, ugly, uncanny, unsafe, venturous, vicious). (various references)

Spanish

peligroso (hazardous, nasty, parlous, perilous, pernicious, reckless, risky, ugly). (various references)

Swedish

farlig (awful, critical, harmful, hazardous, hot, parlous, perilous), vådlig (danferous). (various references)

Tagalog

mapangánib. (various references)

Turkish

tehlikeli (adventurous, breakneck, danger, daring, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, noxious, parlous, perilous, pestilent, pestilential, risky, touch and go, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), tehlíkelí, riskli (adventurous, chancy, Dicey, dodgy, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, not healthy, precarious, risky, touch and go, unsure, venturesome, wildcat), azili. (various references)

Turkmen 

hatarly, gorkunз (frightening, monster), gorkuly (frightened, frightening), biderek (useless, worthless). (various references)

Ukrainian

небезпечний (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, harmful, hazardous, insecure, nasty, parlous, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, serious, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, virulent, wicked), загрозливий (denunciative, denunciatory, forbidding, fulminating, grave, menacing, minatory, nasty, ominous, presageful, threatening, thundery, ugly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dữ tợn (cruel, cruelly, ferocious, fierce, grim, towering), nguy ngập (anxious, critical, trying), nguy hiểm; hiểm nghèo (dangerously), lợi hại. (various references)

Welsh

peryglus (perilous), enbyd (perilous). (various references)

Yucatec

hach k'as (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, horrible, terrible). (various references)

acutus, dubiae, dubio, dubium, formidolosa, formidolosis, formidolosus, infestus, periculosa, periculosae, periculosus. (various references)

frecne, pleolic. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "dangerous": dangerously, dangerousness, dangerousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dangerous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: danerous, dangeous, dangermouse, dangeros, dangeruos, dang'rous, dangrus, Dansereau, dengerous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: noseguard.

-1 letter: guerdons.

-2 letters: aerugos, aground, arenous, aroused, asunder, augends, dangers, danseur, desugar, dogears, dragons, drogues, enduros, ganders, gardens, gerunds, gourdes, groaned, grounds, groused, guerdon, nudgers, onagers, oranges, ourangs, resound, rondeau, sounder, sugared, surgeon, undergo, undoers.

-3 letters: adores, adorns, aerugo, agones, angers, anodes, argons, argued, argues, around, arouse, arseno, augend, augers, dagoes, danger, denars, dogear.

+1 letter: noseguards, sandgrouse.

+2 letters: dangerously, gourmandise, sandgrouses.

+3 letters: beardtongues, dreadnoughts, gourmandises, gourmandizes, groundmasses, groundwaters, nongraduates, outspreading.

+4 letters: backgrounders, battlegrounds, boardinghouse, coastguardmen, dangerousness, deregulations, deuteragonist, glucuronidase, undercoatings, undiscouraged.

+5 letters: bildungsromane, boardinghouses, coastguardsmen, countershading, degranulations, deuteragonists, discouragement, gastroduodenal, glucuronidases, groundbreakers, overpersuading, pseudopregnant, ruggedizations, superabounding.