dangerous
Syllables: dan·ger·ous/ˈdeɪn.ʒ(ə.)ɹəs//ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒ(ə.)ɹəs/
dangerous adjective: full of danger.
Adjective
dangerous (comparative more dangerous or (nonstandard) dangerouser, superlative most dangerous or (nonstandard) dangerousest)
- Full of danger.
- Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
- [I]t is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- Antonyms:
- safe
- Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
- If they incline to think you dangerous, / They have their knaviſh Arts to make you ſo.1696, Tho[mas] Southerne, Oroonoko: A Tragedy […], London: […] H[enry] Playford […]; B[enjamin] Tooke […]; [a]nd S. Buckley […], →OCLC, act III, scene ii, page 41
- And the Duke thought: The truth could be worse than he imagines, but even dangerous facts are valuable if you’ve been trained to deal with them. And there’s one place where nothing has been spared for my son—dealing with dangerous facts.1965 October 1, Frank Herbert, “Book I: Dune”, in Dune, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Book Company; [Toronto], Ont.: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 42
- In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
dangerous meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
dangerous in Hindi
- full of danger
- ख़तरनाक xatarnāk, जोखिमी jokhimī
dangerous in Tamil
- ஆபத்தான
dangerous in Marathi
- full of danger
- घातक ghātak
dangerous in Urdu
- full of danger
- جوکھمی jokhimī, خطرناک xatarnāk
More languagesFewer languages
- dangerous in Bengali
- বিপজ্জনক, বিপদ সংকুল
- dangerous in Telugu
- ప్రమాదకరమైన pramādakaramaina
- dangerous in Malayalam
- സാഹസം sāhasaṁ
- dangerous in Gujarati
- ભયંકર bhayaṅkar, જોખમકારક jokhamkārak
- dangerous in Odia
- ବିପଦପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ, ବିପଜ୍ଜନକ
- dangerous in Sanskrit
- संकट saṃkaṭa
- dangerous in Nepali
- खतरनाक khatarnāk, धरापिलो dharāpilo
- dangerous in Tagalog
- mapanganib, delikado
- dangerous in Arabic
- خَطِر ḵaṭir
- dangerous in Malay
- berbahaya
- dangerous in Indonesian
- berbahaya, bahaya, membahayakan
- dangerous in Persian
- خطرناک xatarnâk, ناامن nā-amn
- dangerous in Thai
- อันตราย an-dtà-raai
- dangerous in Vietnamese
- nguy hiểm
Examples of dangerous in a sentence
- His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man.
- This town is really dangerous because these youngsters have Beretta handguns.
- The rust on my bicycle chain made cycling to work very dangerous.
Synonyms of dangerous
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Antonyms
Forms of dangerous
| comparative | more dangerous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most dangerous |
| comparative (nonstandard) | dangerouser |
| superlative (nonstandard) | dangerousest |
| alternative form (obsolete) | daungerous |
Origin of dangerous
From Middle English daungerous (“difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger”), dangerous, from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French dangereus (“threatening, difficult”), from dangier. Equivalent to danger + -ous. Displaced native Old English frēcne.
Words formed from dangerous
Phrases with dangerous
Questions about dangerous
- What does dangerous mean?
- Dangerous means full of danger.
- What is dangerous in Hindi?
- Dangerous in Hindi is ख़तरनाक (xatarnāk), जोखिमी (jokhimī). See Dangerous meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dangerous?
- Dangerous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce dangerous?
- Dangerous is pronounced /ˈdeɪn.ʒ(ə.)ɹəs/ (UK).
Words near dangerous in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dangerous (page history and authors); dangerous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dangerous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); സാഹസം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); dangerous (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); संकट (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); खतरनाक (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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