Another word for dangerous
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Adjective
Involving possible risk, loss, or injury
- Covered with hair or hairlike projections:
- Consisting of or resembling hair:
- Fraught with difficulties; hazardous:
- Venturesome.
- Disposed to venture or to take risks; daring.
- Involving risk or danger; hazardous:
- Not safe; dangerous.
- Guilty of or characterized by betrayal of confidence or trust; perfidious.
- Characterized by unforeseen or hidden hazards; dangerous or deceptive:
- Accompanied by or involving risk or danger; hazardous.
- Full of or involving peril; dangerous or risky.
- Perilous; dangerous:
- Dangerously cunning.
- Marked by danger; perilous.
- Depending on chance; risky.
- Uncertain as to outcome; risky; hazardous.
- Random; haphazard.
- Lucky; propitious.
- Inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises:
- Requiring or characterized by boldness or daring; hazardous; risky:
See also:Causing or marked by danger or pain, for example
- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
- Marked by or requiring strict adherence to rigorous standards or high principles:
- Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance:
- Careful in thought, full of concern, or restrained and dignified in manner; somber or grave:
- Requiring or carried out with careful thought or concern:
- Intended for sophisticated people.
- Causing grief, pain, or anguish:
- Serious or dire; grave:
- An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
- A place of burial.
- Death or extinction:
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Another word for dangerous
Modifier
Not safe
- Involving or fraught with danger or risk:
- Having or giving off heat; capable of burning.
- Being at a high temperature.
- Being at or exhibiting a temperature that is higher than normal or desirable:
- Being in a state of ill health; sick.
- Characterized by or symptomatic of ill health:
- Causing or conducive to poor health; unwholesome:
- Covered with hair or hairlike projections:
- Consisting of or resembling hair:
- Fraught with difficulties; hazardous:
- Consisting of, containing, or abounding in rock or rocks.
- Resembling or suggesting rock; firm or hard.
- Steadfast or stubborn; unyielding:
- Likely to break or fall apart; shaky.
- Feeble with age; infirm.
- Of, having, or resembling rickets.
- Not firm, solid, or securely in place; unstable.
- Fluctuating; changeable:
- Not even or regular; wavering:
- Causing or tending to cause sliding or slipping:
- Tending to slip, as from one's grasp:
- Not trustworthy; elusive or tricky:
- Trembling or quivering; tremulous:
- Lacking soundness or sturdiness, as of construction:
- Not to be depended on; precarious:
- Dangerous and uncertain in nature or outcome; precarious; delicate:
- Not known or established; questionable:
- Not determined; undecided:
- Not having sure knowledge:
- Uncertain as to outcome; risky; hazardous.
- Random; haphazard.
- Lucky; propitious.
- Dangerously fast:
- Likely to cause an accident:
- Having many thorns or abounding in thorn-covered vegetation:
- Spiny or prickly.
- Controversial, problematic, or vexatious:
- Not achieving an adequate standard; poor:
- Immoral or evil.
- Vulgar or obscene:
- Tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive.
- Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate:
- Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part.
- Tending strongly to change:
- Not constant; fluctuating:
- Wavering or fickle:
- Given to, characterized by, or based upon speculation or conjecture:
- Expressing inquisitive interest:
- Engaging in, given to, or involving financial speculation:
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
- Sensitive to tickling.
- Easily offended or upset; touchy.
- Requiring skillful or tactful handling; delicate:
- Not sure or certain; doubtful:
- Inadequately guarded or protected; unsafe:
- Not firm or fixed; unsteady:
- Of the nature of or constituting a portent; foreboding:
- Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe:
- Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.
- that alarms, or makes suddenly afraid or anxious; frightening
- Making or implying threats:
- Gving warning signs of bad weather:
- Causing the feeling that one's power, social standing, or self-esteem is in danger of being diminished:
- Simple past tense and past participle of expose.
- Susceptible to physical harm or damage:
- Susceptible to emotional injury, especially in being easily hurt:
- Susceptible to attack:
- Careful in thought, full of concern, or restrained and dignified in manner; somber or grave:
- Requiring or carried out with careful thought or concern:
- Intended for sophisticated people.
- Judging severely and finding fault:
- Relating to or characterized by criticism; reflecting careful analysis and judgment:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of critics:
- Not protected; open to assault, injury, damage, or theft.
- Engaged in without taking precautions against the risk of pregnancy or infection by sexually transmitted disease.
- Guilty of or characterized by betrayal of confidence or trust; perfidious.
- Characterized by unforeseen or hidden hazards; dangerous or deceptive:
- Dangerously lacking in security or stability:
- Subject to chance or unknown conditions:
- Based on uncertain, unwarranted, or unproved premises:
- Accompanied by or involving risk or danger; hazardous.
- Marked by danger; perilous.
- Depending on chance; risky.
- Not safe; dangerous.
- Full of or involving peril; dangerous or risky.
Involving an active threat
- Alternative form of out of the frying pan, into the fire.
- Relating to or having the nature of an explosion.
- Tending to explode.
- A substance, especially a prepared chemical, that explodes or causes explosion.
- Causing or tending to cause death:
- Suggestive of death:
- Aiming or wanting to kill; implacable:
- Liable or subject to death; not immortal:
- Of or relating to humans as being subject to death:
- Causing death; fatal:
- Causing or capable of causing death.
- Causing ruin or destruction; disastrous:
- Of decisive importance; fateful:
- provided with arms (weapons), armor, etc.
- having arms (limbs) of a specified kind
- Impossible to capture or enter by force:
- Difficult or impossible to attack, challenge, or refute with success:
- Causing great fear or alarm; dreadful:
- Extremely formidable:
- Extreme in extent or degree; intense:
- Arousing fear, dread, or alarm:
- Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
- Difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat:
- Tending to metastasize:
- Virulent or threatening to life:
- Having or showing ill will; malicious:
- About to occur; impending:
- Disgusting or repellent:
- Unpleasantly cold or wet:
- Dirty; filthy.
- Displeasing to the eye; unsightly.
- Repulsive or offensive; objectionable:
- Rude:
- Menacing; threatening:
- Of or being an omen, especially an evil one.
- Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
- Present participle of impend.
- Judging severely and finding fault:
- Relating to or characterized by criticism; reflecting careful analysis and judgment:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of critics:
- Careful in thought, full of concern, or restrained and dignified in manner; somber or grave:
- Requiring or carried out with careful thought or concern:
- Intended for sophisticated people.
- Making or implying threats:
- Gving warning signs of bad weather:
- Causing the feeling that one's power, social standing, or self-esteem is in danger of being diminished:
- An attempt to commit an assault. An attempt to commit an assault.
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