Another word for dangerous
dangerous
modif.
Not safe
perilous, unsafe, hazardous, risky, precarious, treacherous, unprotected, unshielded, unsheltered, critical, serious, vulnerable, exposed, involving risk, full of risk, threatening, alarming, portentous, causing danger, insecure, ticklish, delicate, speculative, unstable, touchy, bad, fraught with danger, thorny, jeopardous, breakneck, chancy, uncertain, touch-and-go, shaky, slippery, unsteady, rickety, rocky, hairy*, unhealthy*, hot*, dicey*; see also endangered, uncertain 2, unsafe.
Involving an active threat
menacing, threatening, serious, critical, impending, ominous, ugly, nasty, imminent, malignant, formidable, terrible, impregnable, armed, fatal, mortal, deadly, explosive, out of the frying pan and into the fire*, on a collision course*; see also ominous.
Antonyms helpful*, innocent, beneficial.
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Another word for dangerous
Involving possible risk, loss, or injury:
adventurous, chancy, hazardous, jeopardous, parlous, perilous, risky, treacherous, unsafe, venturesome, venturous. (Slang) hairy. See safetyCausing or marked by danger or pain, for example:
grave2, grievous, serious, severe. See help
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