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Dangerous

//ˈdeɪn.ʒ(ə.)ɹəs// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of danger.

    "Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous."

  2. 2
    Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

    "If they incline to think you dangerous, / They have their knaviſh Arts to make you ſo."

  3. 3
    In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. colloquial, dated
Adjective
  1. 1
    causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm wordnet
  2. 2
    involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm wordnet

Etymology

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

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