Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

The word "dangerous" can be used as adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

safe safe

Derived Terms

Dangerous Corner a little knowledge is a dangerous thing a little learning is a dangerous thing armed and dangerous dangerosity dangerous goods dangerousness nondangerous semidangerous undangerous

Derived From

danger

Type Of (IsA)

making assumptions

Related Terms

danger dangerously endanger harmful threatening treacherous

Related Terms

danger dangerously illness insecure vulnerable

Similar Terms

breakneck breakneck chanceful chanceful chancy critical desperate desperate dicey dodgy hazardous hazardous insecure insidious insidious mordacious mordacious on hook on the hook parlous perilous precarious risky self destructive self-destructive suicidal touch and go touch-and-go treacherous treacherous unreliable unsafe vulnerable wild

Synonym Network

hazardous life threatening perilous risky unsafe

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