Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Involving or filled with danger; perilous.
- adjective Being able or likely to do harm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Involving or exposing to danger; perilous; hazardous; unsafe; full of risk: as, a dangerous voyage; a dangerous experiment; in a dangerous condition.
- Liable to inflict injury or harm; baneful in disposition or tendency: as, a dangerous man; a dangerous illness.
- In danger, as from illness; in a perilous condition: as, he is not dangerous.
- Reserved; difficult; disdainful; haughty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
- adjective Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
- adjective colloq. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
- adjective obsolete Hard to suit; difficult to please.
- adjective obsolete Reserved; not affable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of
danger . - adjective Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
- adjective colloquial, dated In a condition of danger, as from
illness ; threatened with death. - adjective obsolete Hard to suit; difficult to please.
- adjective obsolete Reserved; not affable.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- adjective involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
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Examples
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He never used the phrase "dangerous game" like President Obama.
Be Proud, Not Loud Al Lewis 2011
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Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asÂmindless baby-making machine.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist Michael Shaw 2011
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A "MacNeil/Lehrer Report" after the single presidential debate that year noted that Mr. Carter had used the word "dangerous" six times.
The Stephanopoulos Standard William McGurn 2012
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House Speaker John Boehner R., Ohio has so far blocked the legislation, which he called "dangerous."
Pressure Increases Over Yuan Bob Davis 2011
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Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asmindless baby-making machine.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist Michael Shaw 2011
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Officials described what they called a dangerous surgical raid by a small helicopter-borne special operations team, against a large compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, north of the capital, Islamabad.
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Officials described what they called a dangerous surgical raid by a small helicopter-borne special operations team, against a large compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, north of the capital, Islamabad.
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Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asmindless baby-making machine.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist Michael Shaw 2011
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Officials described what they called a dangerous surgical raid by a small helicopter-borne special operations team, against a large compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, north of the capital, Islamabad.
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Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asÂmindless baby-making machine.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist Michael Shaw 2011
reesetee commented on the word dangerous
"The fictional food additives Hnegripitrom and Magnalroxate are from a recent set of experiments where researchers presented their names to people and asked them to rate how dangerous they thought they were on a scale of 1 to 7. If you’re like most people with an English speaking background then you rated Hnegripitrom as more dangerous than Magnalroxate."
--"Dangerous Words," veryevolved.com
February 18, 2009