Word Meanings - DANGEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

Additional info about word: DANGEROUS

1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. Milton. 3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. Forby. Bartlett. 4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. Chaucer. 5. Reserved; not affable. "Of his speech dangerous." Chaucer. -- Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv. -- Dan"ger*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DANGEROUS)

• Insidious
• Wily
• treacherous
• designing
• dangerous
• deceitful
• crafty
• artful
• Perilous
• Hazardous
• Precipitous
• Steep
• headlong
• abrupt
• sheer
• perpendicular
• beetling
• rash

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DANGEROUS)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to DANGEROUS)

• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• INSIDIOUS
  insidere to sit in; pref. in- + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See 1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper. 2. Intended
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• BEETLE
  1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. 2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.
• PERPENDICULAR
  At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• EXSICCATE
  To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
• STEEPLY
  In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
• ABRUPTNESS
  1. The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness. 2. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.
• STEEP-DOWN
  Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• ARTFULNESS
  The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
• BEETLEHEAD
  The black-bellied plover, or bullhead . See Plover. (more info) 1. A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• BARK BEETLE
  A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• WATER BEETLE
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidæ, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidæ. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like
• TAPESTRY BEETLE
  A small black dermestoid beetle whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.