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adjective

Dangerous adj.

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. "Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous." "It is dangerous to assert a negative."

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. "If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods."

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. (Colloq.)

Hard to suit; difficult to please. (Obs.) "My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous."

Reserved; not affable. (Obs.) "Of his speech dangerous."

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Etymology of 'Dangerous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dangerous" Quotes from Famous Books

... was still for undertaking to follow the trough of the Red Sea, but Cosmo declared that this course would be doubly dangerous now that the water had lowered and that they no longer had the Jules Verne to act as a submarine scout, warning them of ...

— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

... tacked about and stood for the southward. Wind and weather fair. Made our course S.S.W., continued proposing to go to a river ten leagues south of the Cape Hudson's River. After had sailed that course about half the day fell amongst dangerous shoals and foaming breakers [the shoals off Monomoy] got out of them before night and the wind being contrary put round again for the Bay of Cape Cod. Abandoned efforts to go further south ...

— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames

... taken her with me," he said. He sat gloomy and dogged like a dangerous maniac in his cell; never moved, scarce thought for more than half an hour; but his deadly purpose grew in him. Suddenly he started. A lady was at the style, about a hundred yards distant. He ...

— White Lies • Charles Reade

... playing cricket. Whenever he hit a little low the result was generally lost ball. To save time—and damage to furniture—Dick and I fielded for him. Dick stood at long-stop, and I was short slip. It was dangerous work, however, and when Dick had caught him out twice running, we agreed that we had won, and took him in to tea. In the evening—none of the rest of us being keen to try our luck a second time—the Captain ...

— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome

... some things about the bairns of the school which the mistress did not know herself, and which, on the whole, it was as well she should not know. So when, in the case of one of them, they seemed to be approaching dangerous ground, and Mrs Jamieson's face began to lengthen and to take the set, which to Marjorie, who had only heard about it, looked ominous of trouble to some one, the child turned the ...

— Allison Bain - By a Way she knew not • Margaret Murray Robertson

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