Dictionary Definition
dangerous adj
1 involving or causing danger or risk; liable to
hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge";
"unemployment reached dangerous proportions" [syn: unsafe] [ant: safe]
2 causing fear or anxiety by threatening great
harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave
illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious
turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening
disease" [syn: grave,
grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Full of danger.
Antonyms
Related terms
Translations
full of danger
- Chinese: 危險, 危险
- Czech: nebezpečný
- Dutch: gevaarlijk, gevaarlijke
- Finnish: vaarallinen
- French: dangereux , dangereuse
- German: gefährlich
- Greek: επικίνδυνος , επικίνδυνη , επικίνδυνο
- Hebrew: מסוכן (mesukan) , מסוכנת (mesukenet)
- Ido: danjeroza
- Italian: pericoloso , pericolosa
- Japanese: 危険 (kiken)
- Korean: 위험 (wiheom)
- Norwegian: farlig
- Portuguese: perigoso , perigosa
- Russian: опасный , опасная , опасное
- Spanish: peligroso , peligrosa
- Sumerian: aksu
- Swedish: farlig, farligt
- Telugu: ప్రమాదకరమైన (pramaadakaramaina)
Extensive Definition
Dangerous describes something that encompasses
danger. It may
also refer to:
Music albums
- Dangerous (album), by Michael Jackson
- Dangerous (Bill Hicks album)
- Dangerous (DecembeRadio album)
Songs
Television and film
- Dangerous (film), a 1935 film directed by Alfred E. Green
- Dangerous (TV series), a 2007 Australian drama
dangerous in French: Dangerous
dangerous in Dutch: Dangerous
dangerous in Japanese: デンジャラス (曖昧さ回避)
dangerous in Polish: Dangerous
dangerous in Swedish: Dangerous
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alarming, bad, chance, chancy, critical, dangersome, desultory, explosive, fell, fraught with danger, grievous, hairy, haphazard, harmful, hazardous, hit-or-miss,
iffy, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, jeopardous, major, menacing, parlous, periculous, perilous, precarious, provisional, random, rickety, risky, serious, shaky, shifting, shifty, slippery, temporary, tentative, threatening, ticklish, treacherous, ugly, uncertain, undependable, unfaithworthy, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, wicked