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[ UK /dˈe‍ɪnd‍ʒəɹəs/ ]
[ US /ˈdeɪndʒɝəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
    unemployment reached dangerous proportions
    a dangerous criminal
    a dangerous bridge
  2. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
    a severe case of pneumonia
    a serious turn of events
    grievous bodily harm
    a life-threatening disease
    a dangerous operation
    a grave illness
    a grave situation
    a serious wound

How To Use dangerous In A Sentence

  • He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
  • My question is this: since BAS drugs operate via a non-absorbed, non-systemic action they are anion-exchange resins, are they at all dangerous? More statin madness | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
  • He added: 'I consider them insidious and extremely dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
  • The goal to attack the spiralling cost of public services may be laudable, but the precedent is dangerous.
  • He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Having obtained the metacentric height, reference to a diagram will at once show the whole range of stability; and this being ascertained at each loading, the stowage of the cargo can be so adjusted as to avoid excessive stiffness in the one hand and dangerous tenderness on the other. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
  • But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
  • Currently, the Italian-built Panthers are being finished off by BAE Systems, with the additional of a machine gun, radios and other accessories, when they will be delivered to the Army, effectively providing "battlefield limousines" for Ruperts – as officers are dismissively called – while troops are forced to patrol in dangerously vulnerable "Snatch" Land Rovers. Feeding the European fantasy
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