jeopardy
/ˈd͡ʒɛpədi/US/ˈd͡ʒɛpɚdi/
jeopardy noun: danger of failure, harm, or loss.
Noun
jeopardy (usually uncountable, plural jeopardies)
- Danger of failure, harm, or loss.
- The poor condition of the vehicle put its occupants in constant jeopardy.
- Thus chaunce hath (by exchaunge) the flie ſo trapt, / That ſodainly he loſt his libertee: / The more he wrange, the faſter was he wrapt [in the spider's web] / And all to thencreaſe of his ieoberdee, […]1556, John Heywood, “The Introduction to the Matter, Showing howe the Flie Chaunced to Fall into the Spiders Copweb”, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished...
Verb
jeopardy (third-person singular simple present jeopardies, present participle jeopardying, simple past and past participle jeopardied)
- To jeopardize; to endanger.
jeopardy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
jeopardy in Hindi
- danger of failure, harm, or loss
- जोखिम jokhim
jeopardy in Tamil
- இடர்
jeopardy in Urdu
- jeopardy
- جوکھم jokhim
jeopardy in Bengali
- বিপদ, ঝুঁকি, সংকটাপন্ন অবস্থা
More languagesFewer languages
- jeopardy in Malayalam
- അപായസ്ഥിതി, വിപത്ത്, ഭീതി, അപകടം
- jeopardy in Kannada
- ಅಪಾಯ, ಗಂಡಾಂತರ, ಕಂಟಕ, ವಿಪತ್ತು
- jeopardy in Persian
- خطر xatar
Examples of jeopardy in a sentence
- It seemed to me I could do something in that vein with my characters: the ticking clock, dire jeopardy, quick changes of fortune, small acts having huge consequences.2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Introduction, p.4:
- When Obinna was red carded shortly after for a ridiculous kick on Larsson it seemed as though West Ham's hopes of reaching Wembley, and in turn Grant's of keeping his job, lay in serious jeopardy.2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 – 1 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport:
Synonyms of jeopardy
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Forms of jeopardy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | jeopardies |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | jeopardies |
| present participle | jeopardying |
| past participle | jeopardied |
| past | jeopardied |
Origin of jeopardy
From Middle English jupartie, jeupartie (“even chance”), from Anglo-Norman giu parti and Middle French jeu parti (“a divided game, i.e. an even game, an even chance”), from Medieval Latin iocus partītus (“an even chance, an alternative”), from Latin iocus (“jest, play, game”) + partītus, perfect passive participle of partiō (“divide”); see joke and party.
Words formed from jeopardy
Questions about jeopardy
- What does jeopardy mean?
- Jeopardy means danger of failure, harm, or loss.
- What is jeopardy in Hindi?
- Jeopardy in Hindi is जोखिम (jokhim). See Jeopardy meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use jeopardy in a sentence?
- It seemed to me I could do something in that vein with my characters: the ticking clock, dire jeopardy, quick changes of fortune, small acts having huge consequences.
- What part of speech is jeopardy?
- Jeopardy can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce jeopardy?
- Jeopardy is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛpədi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of jeopardy?
- The plural of jeopardy is jeopardies.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: jeopardy (page history and authors); jeopardy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جوکھم (Urdu) (page history and authors); Jeopardy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jeopardy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jeopardy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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