Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Involving or filled with danger; perilous.
- adj. Being able or likely to do harm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Involving or exposing to danger; perilous; hazardous; unsafe; full of risk: as, a dangerous voyage; a dangerous experiment; in a dangerous condition.
- Liable to inflict injury or harm; baneful in disposition or tendency: as, a dangerous man; a dangerous illness.
- In danger, as from illness; in a perilous condition: as, he is not dangerous.
- Reserved; difficult; disdainful; haughty.
Wiktionary
- adj. Full of danger.
- adj. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
- adj. colloquial, dated In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
- adj. obsolete Hard to suit; difficult to please.
- adj. obsolete Reserved; not affable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
- adj. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
- adj. colloq. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
- adj. obsolete Hard to suit; difficult to please.
- adj. obsolete Reserved; not affable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- adj. involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
Examples
“He never used the phrase "dangerous game" like President Obama.”
“Officials described what they called a dangerous surgical raid by a small helicopter-borne special operations team, against a large compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, north of the capital, Islamabad.”
Voice of America: Officials Provide Details on bin Laden Operation
“Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asÂmindless baby-making machine.”
“Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asmindless baby-making machine.”
“A "MacNeil/Lehrer Report" after the single presidential debate that year noted that Mr. Carter had used the word "dangerous" six times.”
“House Speaker John Boehner R., Ohio has so far blocked the legislation, which he called "dangerous.”
“Several hundred police officers showed up Wednesday to voice their displeasure with the department's leadership and with what they call a dangerous staffing shortage, the Associated Press reports.”
The Huffington Post: Jody Weis Says He Won't Resign, Officers To Protest Wednesday (VIDEO)
“Senator McCain said Senator Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid are what he calls a dangerous threesome.”
“They're banned in the U.S. Critics pleaded with the company to stop what it called dangerous dives.”
“Secretary of State Rice today said Russia is playing what she called a dangerous game.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dangerous’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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steffany(grade 2)
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base, beach and 127 more...
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jackgrade2
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, atlas, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base and 127 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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In the News
johnstown flood tax, beige plague, antikythera mecha..., hyena-like vandals, sticker of shame, wombat leave, dutchy, grease infractions, thread count sett..., inherent vice, biobigotry, tank plinking and 98 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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Dewdrops
Sparkling words I love :3
photograph, maelstrom, necromancy, pristine, cremation, euphamism, railway, xeric, journey, smear, crypt, gangrene and 43 more...
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TT3 Lesson 27
cousin, message, urgent, extremely, document, tip, gone for the day, happen, call in, contact, matter, keep fingers crossed and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dangerous.
reesetee "The fictional food additives [Hnegripitrom and Magnalroxate] are from a recent set of experiments where researchers presented their names to people and asked them to rate how dangerous they thought they were on a scale of 1 to 7. If you’re like most people with an English speaking background then you rated Hnegripitrom as more dangerous than Magnalroxate."
--"Dangerous Words," veryevolved.com Feb 18, 2009