Perilous

Definition: Perilous

Perilous

Adjective

1. Fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery".

Date "perilous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Perilous

Synonyms: parlous (adj), precarious (adj), touch-and-go (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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.
Fear	Inspiring fear; Verb: alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous; (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting; (painful); Gorgonian.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Perilous

English words defined with "perilous": A forlorn hope ♦ Jeopardous ♦ melodramatic ♦ parlous, Perlous, precarious ♦ Siege Perilous ♦ touch-and-go. (references)

Specialty definitions using "perilous": Corkscrew, Coward ♦ Horse-trader ♦ Ladder, Lock ♦ Perilous Castle, Pins, Pollente ♦ Rowland ♦ Wealth. (references)

Etymologies containing "perilous": Parlous, Periculous, Perlous. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	My story starts at sea a perilous voyage to an unknown land a shipwreck the wild waters roar and heave the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned all save one a lady whose soul is greater than the ocean and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) Slaying is a tad more perilous than dating. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) And so, onward and upward the tired trekkers trudged on feverished footsies on the perilous paths. (George of the Jungle; writing credit: Jay Ward; Dana Olsen) Ignorance is a steep hill with perilous rocks at the bottom. (The Wind and the Lion; writing credit: John Milius)
Movie/TV Titles	A Perilous Journey (1953) Perilous Waters (1948) Experiment Perilous (1944) Perilous Paths (1929) A Perilous Leap (1917)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Freddy and the Perilous Adventure (reference) The Perilous Gard (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Perilous Pursuits of (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Perilous Time (reference) Siege Perilous (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Matty's perilous situation up Salt River.Credit: Library of Congress.		New costume for lady-in-waiting--the Duchess of Sermoneta returns to Italy after perilous tour of Abyssinia.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Whaling in Eskimo land: a combined sport-festival--after the perilous sea hunt, they cut up blubber for the feast at the dance.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Confucius	Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
Dante Alighieri	And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
Hannah More	Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Ouida	The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But this the executive power, or wise princes, never need come in the danger of: and it is the thing, of all others, they have most need to avoid, as of all others the most perilous. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The fall was perilous.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Russia	While professional services in Russia are expensive, it is perilous to avoid this expense. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	COWARD, n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	The active, persevering, and unremitted energy of Captain Warrington and of the officers and men under his command on that trying and perilous service have been crowned with signal success, and are entitled to the approbation of their country.
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	We have been carried in safety through a perilous crisis.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	I call upon him further to abandon this course of world domination and to join in an historic effort to end the perilous arms race and transform the history of man.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Yet we still live in a troubled and perilous world.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	In an era where the strategic nuclear forces are in rough equilibrium, the risks of conflict below the nuclear threshold may grow more perilous.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Perilous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.05% of the time. "Perilous" is used about 177 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	96.05%	170	23,898
Noun (proper)	3.95%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	177	N/A

Expression using "perilous": siege Perilous. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "perilous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me rrezik (adventurous, badly, chancy, precarious, speculative, Venturous), i rrezikshëm (breakneck, critical, dangerous, endangering, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, high risk, malign, nasty, parlous, pestilent, risky, risque, touch and go, unchancy, unsafe). (various references)

Arabic		‏محفوف بالمخاطر (adventurous, chancy, risky, unhealthy), ‏خطر (adventurous, advise, awkward, challenge, come, critical, danger, dangerous, embargo, fear, give smb. notice, hazard, importance, jeopardy, parlous, peril, poisonous, prohibition, proscription, risk, risky, unhealthy). (various references)

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

Chinese		殆 (almost, dangerous, endanger, only, probably), 岌 (lofty peak), 危险 (Danger, Dangerous, Hazard, Peril, risky). (various references)

Czech		odvážný (audacious, brave, courageous, daring, fearless, great-hearted, high-spirited, lion-hearted, manful, mettlesome, plucky, risky, soldierly, spunky, stalwart, venturesome), nebezpeèný (dangerous, grave, hairy, hazardous, risky, ugly, unsafe). (various references)

Farsi		مخاطره امیز, خطرناک (Calamitous, Disastrous, Dngerous, Grave, Herculean, Ill, Jeopardous, Malignant, Serious, Venturesome). (various references)

Finnish		vaarallinen (critical, dangerous, hazardous, risky), hengenvaarallinen (critical, grave, highly dangerous). (various references)

French		périlleux, dangereux. (various references)

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

Greek		κινδυνώδησ (dangerous, risky), επικίνδυνοσ (dangerous, desperate, hazardous, nasty, risky, unsafe, wild cat). (various references)

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

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

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

Japanese Kanji		険悪 (dangerous, gloomy, serious, stormy, threatening). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		け�"あく (dangerous, gloomy, serious, stormy, threatening). (various references)

Korean		위험한 (Dangerous, hazardous, risky, speculative, unsafe). (various references)

Manx		danjeyragh (dangerous, parlous), cryggylagh (dangerous). (various references)

Pig Latin		erilouspay

Portuguese		perigoso (adventure, adventurous, breakneck, chanceful, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, hot as, insecurity, parlous, precarious, risky, touch and go, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, venturesome), arriscar (chance, commit, dare, endanger, hazard, imperil, jeopard, jeopardize, pawn, risk, stick one's neck out, venture). (various references)

Romanian		primejdios (breakneck, dangerous, dangerously, hazardous, insecure, perilously, perniciously, pestiferous), periculos (awkward, baleful, breakneck, dangerous, dangerously, grave, parlous, perniciously, risky, trappy, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat). (various references)

Russian		рискованный (adventurous, buccaneering, chanceful, chancy, dangerous, dicey, hazardous, risky, risque, speculative, touch and go, touch-and-go), опасный (breakneck, chanceful, dangerous, dicey, endangering, grave, hazardous, heroic, hot, nasty, parlous, precarious, risky, trappy, unsafe, virulent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rizičan (risky, wildcat), opasan (adventurous, breakneck, dangerous, girded, hazardous, parlous, pernicious, tight, treacherous, ugly, uncanny, unsafe, venturous, vicious). (various references)

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

Swedish		farlig (awful, critical, dangerous, dangerous bank, harmful, hazardous, hot, parlous). (various references)

Turkish		tehlikeli (adventurous, breakneck, danger, dangerous, daring, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, noxious, parlous, pestilent, pestilential, risky, touch and go, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat). (various references)

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

Vietnamese		nguy nan, nguy hiểm (breakneck, lively), hiểm nghèo, đầy hiểm hoạ. (various references)

Welsh		peryglus (dangerous), enbyd (dangerous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	periculosa, periculosae, trepidi, trepidum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	2 Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 1
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Touto de ginwske oti en escataiV hmeraiV ensthsontai kairoi calepoi
Latin	405	Vulgate	Hoc autem scito quod in novissimis diebus instabunt tempora periculosa
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	But wite thou this thing, that in the laste daies perelouse tymes schulen neiye, and men schulen be louynge hem silf,
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	This understonde that in the last dayes shall come parelous tymes.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	This know also, that in the last days perilous times will come.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	2 Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 1
Cebuano	¶ Apan sabta kini, nga unya sa kaulahiang mga adlaw managpangabut ang mga panahon nga malisud.
Croatian	A ovo znaj: u posljednjim danima nastat æe teška vremena.
Danish	Men vid dette,at i de sidste Dage skulle vanskelige Tider indtræde.
Dutch	En weet dit, dat in de laatste dagen ontstaan zullen zware tijden.
Finnish	Mutta tiedä se, että viimeisinä päivinä on tuleva vaikeita aikoja.
French	Sache que, dans les derniers jours, il y aura des temps difficiles.
German	Das sollst du aber wissen, daß in den letzten Tagen werden greuliche Zeiten kommen.
Haitian Creole	¶ Mete sa byen nan tèt ou: nan dènye jou yo, tan an pral difisil anpil.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ingatlah ini: Pada hari-hari terakhir akan ada banyak kesusahan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Perhatikanlah! Pada akhir zaman akan datang kelak suatu masa yang sukar.
Italian	Devi anche sapere che negli ultimi tempi verranno momenti difficili.
Latvian	Bet zini, ka pçdçjâs dienâs iestâsies baigi laiki,
Maori	¶ Kia matau koe ki tenei, ko a nga ra o te whakamutunga puta mai ai nga wa o te he.
Norwegian	Men dette skal du vite at i de siste dager skal det komme vanskelige tider.
Portuguese	Sabe, porém, isto, que nos últimos dias sobrevirão tempos penosos;
Rumanian	Sq wtii cq kn zilele din urmq vor fi vremuri grele.
Russian	ъОБК ЦЕ, ЮФП Ч � ПУМЕ�"ОЙЕ �"ОЙ ОБУФХ� СФ ЧТЕНЕОБ ФСЦЛЙЕ.
Shuar	¶ Amuukatin tsawant jeakui ti itiurchat átatui.
Spanish	También debes saber esto: que en los últimos días se presentarán tiempos difíciles.
Swahili	Kumbuka kwamba, katika siku za mwisho kutakuwa na nyakati za taabu.
Swedish	Den yttersta tidens ondska. Förmaning till Timoteus att hålla fast vid evangelii lära.
Uma	¶ Bona nu'inca, hi eo-eo to tumai, susa' katuwu' -ta hi dunia' toi, apa' dada'a lia gau' manusia'.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "perilous": perilously, perilousness, perilousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Perilous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erolius, papillosus, parilous, parious, Pedrillo, Periflux, periglour, perilious, Perillus, perious, periplous, perlious, pernious, Petilius, Piriou, preclous, preious, purious, pusillus, pyritous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "perilous" (pronounced pe"rulus)
6	-e" r u l u s	Carolus, garrulous, querulous.
4	-u l u s	acropolis, anomalous, calculus, fabulous, frivolous, incredulous, libelous, marvelous, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, miraculous, nautilus, nebulous, necropolis, Oxalis, pendulous, populace, populous, ridiculous, scandalous, scrupulous, scurrilous, stimulus, syphilis, tantalus, tremulous, unscrupulous.
3	-l u s	accomplice, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, callous, callus, careless, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, fruitless, Gallus, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, meaningless, meatless, mindless, motherless, motionless, nameless, necklace, needless, odorless, overzealous, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, penniless, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scoreless, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stylus, surplus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-o-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: leprous, lousier, pelorus, pileous, soilure, soupier, spoiler, sporule.
	-2 letters: lisper, lopers, lories, louies, loupes, oilers, oriels, perils, pileus, pilose, pilous, pliers, poilus, poiser, poleis, polers, polies, poseur, proles, pulers, pulser, reoils, sloper, splore, uprise, uprose.
	-3 letters: euros, ileus, liers, lieus, loper, lopes, lores, loris, loser, louie, louis, loupe, loups, lours, louse, lures, oiler.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-o-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: poultries, prelusion, repulsion, supercoil.
	+2 letters: perilously, plesiosaur, popularise, preciously, preclusion, prelusions, previously, propulsive, purloiners, pyrolusite, repulsions, supercoils, superiorly, turophiles, viperously.
	+3 letters: copublisher, imperiously, leprosarium, neutrophils, penuriously, plesiosaurs, popularised, popularises, popularizes, preclusions, prologuizes, protrusible, purposively, pyrolusites, semipopular, sporulative, supercoiled, superpolite, xerophilous.
	+4 letters: ailurophiles, ailurophobes, copublishers, corpulencies, cupronickels, imperviously, leprosariums, luteotropins, microcapsule, multiplexors, multipurpose, neuroleptics, oversupplied, oversupplies, pelargoniums, perfidiously, perilousness, perjuriously, perniciously, plutocracies, polioviruses, polyneuritis, popularities, popularizers, portcullises, precariously, precociously, protrusively, supercilious, supercoiling, supercooling, upholsteries, upholstering, voluptuaries.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 72 69 6C 6F 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 0072 0069 006C 006F 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
perilous plunge	9
perilous	8
captain underpants and the perilous plot of professor poopypants	5
perilous times	4
siege perilous	4
perilous sky tame	3
castle perilous	2
game parlor perilous	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Perilous

Definition: Perilous

Perilous

Adjective

Synonyms: Perilous

Synonyms within Context: Perilous

Danger

Fear

Crosswords: Perilous

Modern Usage: Perilous

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Confucius

Dante Alighieri

Hannah More

Ouida

Historic Usage: Perilous

John Locke

Use in Literature: Perilous

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Perilous

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Perilous

John Quincy Adams

Franklin Pierce

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Gerald Ford

Usage Frequency: Perilous

Expression: Perilous

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Perilous

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Matched Bible Translations: Perilous

Derivations & Misspellings: Perilous

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Rhyming with "Perilous"

Anagrams: Perilous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Perilous

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Perilous