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daungerous

daungerous is the obsolete form of dangerous.

Meaning of dangerous

Adjective

dangerous (comparative more dangerous or (nonstandard) dangerouser, superlative most dangerous or (nonstandard) dangerousest)

  1. Full of danger.
    • Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
    Antonyms:
    safe
  2. 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
  3. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

Forms of daungerous

comparativemore daungerous
superlativemost daungerous

Questions about daungerous

What is daungerous the obsolete form of?
Daungerous is the obsolete form of dangerous.

Words near daungerous in the dictionary

  1. dauner
  2. daunered
  3. daunering
  4. dauners
  5. Daungan
  6. daungerous
  7. Daunian
  8. Daunians
  9. Daunii
  10. daunomycin
  11. daunomycins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daungerous (page history and authors); dangerous (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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