dangerous

Meaning

Adjective

• Full of danger.
• Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
• Hard to suit; difficult to please.
• Reserved; not affable.

Related

Similar words

• hazardous
• perilous
• risky
• unsafe

Opposite words

• safe, harmless

Origin

• From Middle English dangerous ("difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger"), daungerous, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French dangereus ("threatening, difficult"), from dangier. Equivalent to danger + -ous.
• Displaced native Old English frēcne.