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Full of danger.
- Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
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Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
- If they incline to think you dangerous, / They have their knaviſh Arts to make you ſo.
- And the Duke thought: The truth could be 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.
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In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.colloquialdated
syn. dangerous · dangersome · hazardous · hot · jeopardous · wicked · forbidding · parlous · periculous · perilous · precarious · risky
ant. safe · secure · unhazardous