dangerous

  • (a) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
    • a dangerous criminal
    • a dangerous bridge
    • unemployment reached dangerous proportions
    unsafe,
  • (s) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
    • a dangerous operation
    • a grave situation
    • a grave illness
    • grievous bodily harm
    • a serious wound
    • a serious turn of events
    • a severe case of pneumonia
    • a life-threatening disease
    grievous, life-threatening, grave, serious, severe,

Synonyms

unsafe grievous life-threatening grave serious severe

Antonyms

safe

See also

unsafe insecure vulnerable

Words of close approximity

dangerously dangerousness dangerous undertaking