dangerous

English

Alternative forms

daungerous (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dangerous (“difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger”), daungerous, from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French dangereus (“threatening, difficult”), from dangier. Equivalent to danger +‎ -ous.

Displaced native Old English frēcne.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪnʒ(ə)ɹəs/, /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəs/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒəɹəs/, /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒɚəs/, /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒɚs/, /ˈdeɪnʒɹəs/
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Hyphenation: dan‧ger‧ous

Adjective

dangerous (comparative more dangerous, superlative most dangerous)

Full of danger.
Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
Synonyms: hazardous, perilous, risky, unsafe; see also Thesaurus:dangerous
Antonym: safe
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
  [I]t is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
- 1696, Tho[mas] Southerne, Oroonoko: A Tragedy […], London: […] H[enry] Playford […]; B[enjamin] Tooke […]; [a]nd S. Buckley […], OCLC 1227540146, Act III, scene ii, page 41:
  If they incline to think you dangerous, / They have their knaviſh Arts to make you ſo.
- 1965, Herbert, Frank, Dune‎ (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, OCLC 15383013, page 49‎:
  And the Duke thought: The truth could he worse than he imagines, but even dangerous facts are valuable if you’ve been trained to deal with them. And there’s one place where nothing has been spared for my son—dealing with dangerous facts.
(colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

Usage notes

The standard comparative and superlative are more dangerous and most dangerous; the forms dangerouser and dangerousest or dangerest exist but are nonstandard.

Derived terms

a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
a little learning is a dangerous thing
armed and dangerous
dangerous goods

Related terms

danger
dangerously

Translations

full of danger

Afar: um
Afrikaans: gevaarlik
Albanian: i rrezikshëm
Amharic: አደገኛ (ʾädägäña)
Arabic: خَطِر‎ (ḵaṭir)
Egyptian Arabic: خطير‎ (ḵaṭīr)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: վտանգավոր (hy) (vtangavor)
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: peligrosu
Aymara: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: təhlükəli
Basque: arriskutsu
Belarusian: небяспе́чны (njebjaspjéčny)
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Breton: dañjerus (br)
Bulgarian: опа́сен (bg) (opásen), риско́ван (bg) (riskóvan)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: perillós (ca)
Cherokee: ᎦᏂᏰᎬ (ganiyegv), ᎦᎾᏰᎩ (ganayegi)
Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 危險, 危险 (ngai⁴ him²)
Mandarin: 危險／危险 (zh) (wēixiǎn)
Min Nan: 危險 (zh-min-nan), 危险 (gûi-hiám / hûi-hiám / ûi-hiám)
Czech: nebezpečný (cs)
Danish: farlig (da)
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: gevaarlijk (nl), gevaarlijke (nl)
Elfdalian: farlin
Esperanto: danĝera
Estonian: ohtlik (et)
Ewe: please add this translation if you can
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: vandamikil, hættisligur
Finnish: vaarallinen (fi)
French: dangereux (fr), périlleux (fr), périculeux (fr)
Friulian: periculôs
Galician: perigoso (gl)
Georgian: საშიში (sašiši), სახიფათო (saxipato)
German: gefährlich (de)
Greek: επικίνδυνος (el) (epikíndynos)
Ancient: ἐπικίνδυνος (epikíndunos)
Greenlandic: navianartoq, ulorianartoq
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Haitian Creole: danjere
Hausa: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: makaʻuloa, weliweli ʻia
Hebrew: מסוכן \\ מְסֻכָּן‎ (m'sukan)
Hindi: ख़तरनाक (xatarnāk), जोखिमी (jokhimī)
Hungarian: veszélyes (hu)
Icelandic: hættulegur (is)
Ido: danjeroza (io)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: berbahaya (id), bahaya (id)
Interlingua: periculose
Irish: dáinséarach, contúirteach
Italian: pericoloso (it)
Japanese: 危険 (ja) (きけん, kiken), 危ない (ja) (あぶない, abunai)
Javanese: mbebayani
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: មានគ្រោះថ្នាក់ (miən krŭəh thnak)
Korean: 위험하다 (ko) (wiheomhada)
Ladino: perikolozo, peligrozo, sekanali, sekanozo, danjerozo, rizikozo
Lao: ມີອັນຕະລາຍ (mī ʼan ta lāi)
Latin: perīculōsus (la)
Latvian: bīstams
Lithuanian: pavojingas (lt)
Luganda: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: geféierlech
Macedonian: о́пасен (ópasen)
Malay: berbahaya
Maltese: perikolużi
Maori: mōrearea
Marathi: घातक (ghātak)
Mirandese: peligroso
Mongolian: аюултай (mn) (ajuultaj)
Norman: dangéreux
Northern Sami: váralaš
Norwegian:
Bokmål: farlig, farefull
Nynorsk: farefull
Occitan: dangeirós (oc)
Old English: frēcne
Oriya: please add this translation if you can
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: خطرناک‎ (fa) (xatarnâk)
Plautdietsch: roakboa
Polish: niebezpieczny (pl), groźny (pl)
Portuguese: perigoso (pt)
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: periculos (ro)
Romansch: privlus (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader), prigulus (Sursilvan), prievlus (Sutsilvan, Puter), privlous (Surmiran)
Russian: опа́сный (ru) (opásnyj), риско́ванный (ru) (riskóvannyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: о̏па̄сан
Roman: ȍpāsan (sh)
Sicilian: dannìuru, piriculusu (scn), priculusu (scn)
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: nebezpečný
Slovene: nevárən (sl)
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: peligroso (es)
Sumerian: 𒆗 (kalag /aksu, agsu/)
Swedish: farlig (sv), farligt (sv)
Tagalog: mapanganib, delikado
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: ప్రమాదకరమైన (te) (pramādakaramaina)
Thai: วิกฤต (th) (wí-grìt), อันตราย (th) (an-dtà-raai)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: tehlikeli (tr)
Turkmen: howply
Ukrainian: небезпе́чний (nebezpéčnyj)
Urdu: جوکھمی‎ (jokhimī), خطرناک‎ (xatarnāk)
Uyghur: خەتەرلىك‎ (xeterlik)
Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: nguy hiểm (vi)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: dandjreus (wa), riskeus (wa)
Welsh: peryglus (cy)
Wolof: please add this translation if you can
Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: געפֿערלעך‎ (geferlekh), סכּנהדיק‎ (sakonedik, sekonedik)
Yoruba: léwu
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

causing danger, ready to do harm or injury

Dutch: gevaarlijk (nl)
French: dangereux (fr)
German: gefährlich (de)
Indonesian: membahayakan (id)
Maori: whakawhara
Polish: groźny (pl)
Swahili: na hatari (sw)

Anagrams

nose guard, noseguard

Occitan

Adjective

dangerous m (feminine singular dangerouso, masculine plural dangerous, feminine plural dangerousos)

(Mistralian) Alternative form of dangeirós