DANGEROUS
adjective
Definitions
- 1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay.
- 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. Milton.
- 3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett.
- 4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.] My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. Chaucer.
- 5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] "Of his speech dangerous." Chaucer. -- Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv. -- Dan"ger*ous*ness, n.
Added: October 09, 2025
Updated: October 09, 2025