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dangerous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of dangerous

1 involving potential loss or injury

the soldiers were specially selected to go on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines

Synonyms of dangerous

grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unhealthy, unsafe, venturesome

Words Related to dangerous

dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain

chance, haphazard, random

distressing, sickening, unpleasant

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilent

deadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous

Near Antonyms of dangerous

advantageous, beneficial, good

Antonyms of dangerous

harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening

2 causing or capable of causing harm

the common knowledge that smoking is dangerous to one's health hasn't stopped some people

Synonyms of dangerous

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked

Words Related to dangerous

hostile, inimical, unfriendly

contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous

insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening

hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound

nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome

destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous

Near Antonyms of dangerous

advantageous, beneficial, useful

favorable, good, propitious

curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome

noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous

Antonyms of dangerous

anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe

Synonym Discussion of dangerous

dangerous, hazardous, precarious, perilous, risky mean bringing or involving the chance of loss or injury. dangerous applies to something that may cause harm or loss unless dealt with carefully.

- soldiers on a dangerous mission

hazardous implies great and continuous risk of harm or failure.

- claims that smoking is hazardous to your health

precarious suggests both insecurity and uncertainty.

- earned a precarious living by gambling

perilous strongly implies the immediacy of danger.

- perilous mountain roads

risky often applies to a known and accepted danger.

- shied away from risky investments

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