Dangerous

Definition of Dangerous

Dan´ger`ous

a.	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.
	4.	Hard to suit; difficult to please. My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. - Chaucer.
	5.	Reserved; not affable.

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alarming, bad, chance, chancy, dangersome, desultory, explosive, fell, fraught with danger, grievous, hairy, haphazard, harmful, hazardous, hit-or-miss, iffy, infirm, insubstantial, jeopardous, major, menacing, parlous, periculous, precarious, provisional, random, rickety, serious, shaky, shifting, shifty, slippery, temporary, tentative, ticklish, treacherous, ugly, undependable, unfaithworthy, unhealthy, unreliable, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, wicked

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