Adjective: dangerous deyn-ju-rus
- Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
"a dangerous criminal"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions";
- unsafe
- Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
"a dangerous operation";
- grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening
See also: breakneck, chanceful [archaic], chancy, critical, desperate, dicey [informal], dodgy [Brit, informal], 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, Dirty and Difficult job