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Adjective: dangerous  deynjurus
  1. Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
    "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions"
    - unsafe
     
  2. Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
    "a dangerous operation"
    - grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening

See also: breakneck, chanceful, chancy, critical, danger, dangerously, dangerousness, desperate, dicey, dodgy [Brit], hazardous, insecure, insidious, mordacious, on the hook, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, self-destructive, suicidal, touch-and-go, treacherous, unreliable, unsafe, vulnerable, wild

Antonym: safe

Encyclopedia: Dangerous Dangerous, Dirty and Difficult job Dangerous, terrible cult