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/dˈeɪndʒərəs/ Listen

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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"Dangerous" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Wild Boar.] The wild Hog is of all other the hardest to be caught; and 'tis dangerous to attempt the catching of him. For the people make valour to consist in three things, one is to fight against the Enemy, another to hunt the Elephant, and the third to catch Hoggs. Yet sometimes by their art they entrap them. And that ...

— An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies • Robert Knox

... it in too strong. The feed's well enough. After geese have got tough, 'n' turkeys have got strong, 'n' lamb's got old, 'n' veal's pretty nigh beef, 'n' sparragrass 's growin' tall 'n' slim 'n' scattery about the head, 'n' green peas are gettin' so big 'n' hard they'd be dangerous if you fired 'em out of a revolver, we get hold of all them delicacies of the season. But it's too much like feedin' on live folks and devourin' widdah's substance, to lay yourself out in the eatin' way, when a fellah 's as hungry as the chap that said a turkey was too much ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... a pinched wee thing to be sweeping those dangerous crossings," said the lady; "no wonder the heedless crowd jostled her down, and nearly crushed ...

— The Elm Tree Tales • F. Irene Burge Smith

... wrecked cars came cries of pain and yells for help. One of the cars still stood up, but at a dangerous angle, while the other had turned completely over and rested on ...

— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)

... to learn. And English people do not like being told things. What could we do? We could hardly send a French officer or so to your headquarters in a tutorial capacity. You have to do things in your own way." When I tried to draw General Castelnau into this dangerous question by suggesting that we might borrow a French general or so, he would say only, "There is only one way to learn war, and that is to make war." When it was too late, in the lift, I thought of the answer to that. There is only one way to make war, and that is by the sacrifice of incapables ...

— War and the Future • H. G. Wells

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