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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

ultrahazardous

chance, haphazard, random

distressing, sickening, unpleasant

ugly, wicked

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

ultrasafe
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

secure, sound

benignant

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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