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dangerful

dangerful adjective: fraught with danger; hazardous.

Adjective

dangerful (comparative more dangerful, superlative most dangerful)

  1. (obsolete) Fraught with danger; hazardous.

Forms of dangerful

comparativemore dangerful
superlativemost dangerful

Origin of dangerful

From danger + -ful.

Questions about dangerful

What does dangerful mean?
Dangerful means fraught with danger; hazardous.
What part of speech is dangerful?
Dangerful is an adjective.

Words near dangerful in the dictionary

  1. dangered
  2. dangerest
  3. Dangerfield
  4. Dangerfieldesque
  5. Dangerfields
  6. dangerful
  7. dangerfully
  8. dangering
  9. dangerisation
  10. dangerisations
  11. dangerization

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