Hazardous

Definition: Hazardous

Hazardous

Adjective

1. Involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a venturesome journey in wintertime"; "a venturous enterprise".

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

Date "hazardous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Etymology: Hazardous \Haz"ard*ous\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression hasardeux.]. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Hazardous

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.

Crosswords: Hazardous

Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went the Police Academy, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties (Charlie's Angels; writing credit: Edgar Allan Poe)

The surgoen general say's it's hazardous to breathe (Paradise City; performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (references; author: unknown)

Hazardous Valley (1927)

Columbo: Caution! Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (1991)

Hazardous Inheritance (1989)

Water: The Hazardous Necessity (1977)

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

References

• Hazardous Waste Handling Equipment in Denmark: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Solid and Hazardous Waste Equipment in Czech Republic: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• Hazardous Waste Management and Disposal Equipment in Switzerland: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

• Industrial and Hazardous Solid Waste Treatment in Chile: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

• Hazardous Waste Treatment in Argentina: A Strategic Entry Report, 1995 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• A Shot in the Dark: Why the P in the Dpt Vaccination May Be Hazardous to Your Child's Health (reference)

• Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (reference)

• Hazardous Chemicals Desk Reference (reference)

• Hazardous Materials Field Guide (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• California Hazardous Materials Program Matrix (reference)

• Dod Hazardous Materials Information Systems (reference)

• Emergency Handling Of Hazardous Materials In Surface Transpo (reference)

• Hazardous Material Alert - Electronic Mail Delivery (reference)

• Hazardous Materials Newsletter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Warning-Food May Be Hazardous (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bukowski Neither Bought for GOld, or to the Devil SOld -- The Life & Hazardous Times of Charles Bukowski [IMPORT] (reference)

• Hazardous Material (reference)

• Occupation Hazardous [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Fire and emergency response personnel practice techniques for hazardous materials containment and removal. Credit: CDC.

Workers in protective clothing to guard against contamination from hazardous waste. Credit: CDC.

Planet formation is a hazardous process. New pictures from the Hubble telescope are giving ... Credit: NASA.

Drums of hazardous chemicals found in mill buildingTwin Peak MineSalmon Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Tim Geary.

Drum of hazardous chemical, pH 14, found in Mill buildingTwin Peak MineSalmon Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Tim Geary.

Working Is Not Hazardous To Your Health. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Excavation of hazardous materials]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Warning casual sex may be hazardous to your health. : My new warning label / Dick Locher. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A Chemical Roadmap: : A Hazardous Journey. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A hazardous position. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Health

Those above 85 dB are potentially hazardous. (references)

Use of irradiation can reduce the use of these other hazardous substances. (references)

Current scientific knowledge is inadequate to predict that any particular individual will be safe when exposed to a hazardous noise. (references)

Business

Technologies do not generate hazardous waste. (references)

GENCO disposes of some hazardous medical wastes. (references)

Imports account for 40 percent of the total hazardous waste market. (references)

Children

Indonesia

Many street children work under hazardous conditions as scavengers, garbage pickers, and on fishing platforms and fishing boats. (references)

Civil Liberties

Congo

Movement between the two zones was hazardous and sometimes impossible. (references)

Burundi

Travel within the country was possible but could be hazardous in areas of rebel activity, particularly in parts of Bujumbura Rural, Bururi, Rutana, Ruyigi, and Makamba provinces. (references)

Economic History

Mozambique

Road travel can be hazardous and should not be undertaken after daylight hours. (references)

Syria

There has been talk of constructing a third port for hazardous cargo south of Tartus. (references)

Korea

The focus of the plan will be on air and water pollution, solid waste, and hazardous waste treatment. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

Verification of reports of abuses committed by UPDF forces in the DRC was extremely difficult, particularly those emanating from remote areas and those affected by active combat, primarily in eastern DRC. Independent observers often found access difficult due to hazardous security conditions and frequent impediments imposed by authorities. (references)

Rwanda

In March a cease-fire began; however, fighting continued between the RPA/RCD and pro-DRC forces, primarily in the Kivu Provinces, DRC. There continued to be reports throughout the year of killings and other human rights abuses by both pro-DRC and anti-DRC government forces, including the RPA, in the conflict in the DRC. Verification of these reports was extremely difficult, particularly those originating from remote areas and those affected by active combat in the eastern part of the DRC. Independent observers often found access difficult due to hazardous conditions, as well as frequent bureaucratic impediments imposed by authorities. (references)

Political Economy

UKRAINE

Conditions are especially hazardous for miners. (references)

Trade

Argentina

There is no general regulation for labeling of hazardous materials. (references)

Nepal

Products hazardous to health such as cigarettes and liquor are taxed at 110 percent. (references)

Singapore

Licenses are required for pharmaceuticals, hazardous chemicals, films and videos, arms and ammunition. (references)

Travel

Bahrain

Travel at night is more hazardous. (references)

Ecuador

Highways are almost all two-lane and can be hazardous. (references)

Ecuador

Scuba diving in the Galapagos Islands can be hazardous and is not recommended for beginners. (references)

Women

Ukraine

The Constitution and the Law on Protection of Motherhood and Childhood prohibit the employment of women in jobs that are hazardous to their health, such as those that involved heavy lifting. (references)

Mexico

To avoid these expensive requirements, some employers, including some in the maquila industry, reportedly deliberately violate these provisions by requiring pregnancy tests in preemployment physicals, by regular examinations and inquiries into women's reproductive status (including additional pregnancy tests), by exposing pregnant women to difficult or hazardous conditions to make them quit, or by dismissing them. (references)

Worker Rights

Djibouti

Children generally are not employed for hazardous work. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hazardous": hazardous behavior ♦ hazardous behaviour ♦ hazardous business ♦ hazardous cargo ♦ hazardous chemical waste ♦ hazardous goods by inland waterways ♦ hazardous location ♦ hazardous material incident response ♦ hazardous process ♦ Hazardous Substances ♦ hazardous venture ♦ hazardous waste. Additional references.

Beginning with "hazardous": hazardous-waste.

Ending with "hazardous": non-hazardous.

Albanian

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

Arabic 

‏منطو على مخاطرة, ‏مجازف (adventurous, foolhardy, rash, reckless, risky), ‏خطير (acute, critical, dangerous, eventful, grave, grievous, heavy, important, irresistible, momentous, redoubtable, risky, risque, serious, severe, significant, ticklish, unsafe, weighty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

рискован (adventurous, chanceful, chancy, insecure, parlous, perilous, precarious, queasy, risky, speculative, sporting, touch and go, unsound, venturesome), опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm). (various references)

Chinese 

危害 (Endangerment, harmed, Harming, jeopardise, jeopardize, Jeopardized, Jeopardizing, jeopardy). (various references)

Czech

hazardní (reckless, risky, Venturous), rizikový, riskantní (adventurous, chancy, dangerous, Dicey, Dickey, dodgy, precarious, risky, touch and go, unsound), nebezpeèný (dangerous, grave, hairy, perilous, risky, ugly, unsafe). (various references)

Danish

risikabel (adventurous, risky). (various references)

Dutch

riskant (adventurous, risky), gewaagd (adventurous, risky). (various references)

Esperanto

riska (risky). (various references)

Farsi 

پرخطر (Dngerous). (various references)

Finnish

vaarallinen (critical, dangerous, perilous, risky), uskalias (audacious, bold, daring, risky, venturesome). (various references)

French

périlleux, hasardeux. (various references)

Frisian

noedlik (adventurous, risky). (various references)

German

riskant (bold, chancy, dangerous, dicey, dodgy, precarious, risky, touchy, venturous, wildcat), gefährlich (dangerous, dangerously, desperate, formidable, nastily, perilous, perilously, pestilent, pestilently, reckless, risky, savage, savagely, unhealthy, unsafe), gewagt (bold, dared, daring, off color, racy, reckless, risked, risky, risque, ventured, venturesome, wildcat). (various references)

Greek 

ριψοκίνδυνοσ (adventurous, plunger, reckless, sporting, venturesome), παράτολμοσ (adventurous, breakneck, dare devil, foolhardy, presumptuous, reckless, venturesome), επικίνδυνοσ (dangerous, desperate, nasty, perilous, risky, unsafe, wild cat), επικίνδυνος (dangerous, perilous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסוכן (dangerous, fell, mean, perilous, precarious, risky, unhealthy, unsafe). (various references)

Hungarian

veszélyes (baleful, dangerous, fraught with danger, have teeth in it, insecure, malignant, nasty, parlous, perilous, risky, sticky, unsafe), kockázatos (chancy, dicey, endangering, fraught with risk, hairy, perilous, risky, speculative, sticky, touch and go, unsafe), kalandos (adventurous, cloak-and-dagger). (various references)

Indonesian

berbahaya (dangerous, harmful, noxious, risky). (various references)

Italian

rischioso (chancy, dicey, risky, touch and go, venturesome, venturous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

際どい (close, dangerous, delicate, risky, suggestive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きわどい (close, dangerous, delicate, risky, suggestive). (various references)

Korean 

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

Manx

gaueagh (dangerous, jeopardous, risky, venturesome). (various references)

Norwegian

risikabel. (various references)

Pig Latin

azardoushay.(various references)

Portuguese

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

Romanian

hazardat (hazardously, risky, wildcat), riscant (chancy, dangerous, dare devil, reckless, risky, temerarious, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), primejdios (breakneck, dangerous, dangerously, insecure, perilous, perilously, perniciously, pestiferous). (various references)

Russian 

рискованный (adventurous, buccaneering, chanceful, chancy, dangerous, dicey, perilous, risky, risque, speculative, touch and go, touch-and-go). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

hazardan, riskantan (chancy, kittle, risky), opasan (adventurous, breakneck, dangerous, girded, parlous, perilous, pernicious, tight, treacherous, ugly, uncanny, unsafe, venturous, vicious). (various references)

Spanish

arriesgado (adventuresome, adventurous, chancy, dangerous, devil may care, perilous, risky, unsafe), peligroso (dangerous, nasty, parlous, perilous, pernicious, reckless, risky, ugly). (various references)

Swedish

vansklig (difficult, Kittle, precarious, risky), farlig (awful, critical, dangerous, harmful, hot, parlous, perilous). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งเป็นอันตราย (injurious, noxious). (various references)

Turkish

tehlikeli (adventurous, breakneck, danger, dangerous, daring, forbidding, hairy, noxious, parlous, perilous, pestilent, pestilential, risky, touch and go, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), riskli (adventurous, chancy, dangerous, Dicey, dodgy, forbidding, hairy, not healthy, precarious, risky, touch and go, unsure, venturesome, wildcat), şansa bağlı (aleatoric, aleatory, flukey, fluky), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing). (various references)

Ukrainian

ризикований (adventurous, chanceful, chancy, critical, naughty, off color, off colour, perilous, precarious, risky, risque, touch and go, touchy, venturesome, wildcat), небезпечний (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, dangerous, harmful, insecure, nasty, parlous, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, serious, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, virulent, wicked). (various references)

Vietnamese 

liều (devil-may-care, precarious, rash, risky, venture, venturesome, wildcat). (various references)

insidiose, lubrico, lubricum, periculosa, periculosae, periculosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hazardous": hazardously, hazardousness, hazardousnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "hazardous": nonhazardous, ultrahazardous. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hazardous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: harzardous, hazadous, hazaradous, hazardas, hazerdous, hazzardous. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dourahs, hazards, sahuaro.

-3 letters: dourah, douras, hazard, hoards, shroud, sradha.

-4 letters: auras, dorsa, doura, duras, duros, haars, hards, hoard, hoars, horas, hours, hurds, roads, sadhu, sarod, shard, sudor, surah.

-5 letters: aahs, ados, aura, dahs, dash, dors, dour, duos, dura, duro, haar, hard, hoar, hods, hora, hour, oars, orad, osar, ouds, ours, rads, rash, rhos.

+2 letters: hazardously.

+3 letters: nonhazardous.

+4 letters: hazardousness.

+5 letters: ultrahazardous.