DANGEROUS

a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay.

2.
a.

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. Milton.

3.
a.

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett.

4.
a.

Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.] My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. Chaucer.

5.
a.

Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] "Of his speech dangerous." Chaucer. -- Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv. -- Dan"ger*ous*ness, n.


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