dangerous
pronunciation
How to pronounce dangerous in British English:
UK [ˈdeɪndʒərəs]
How to pronounce dangerous in American English:
US [ˈdeɪndʒərəs]
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- Adjective:
- involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
Word Origin
- dangerous (adj.)
- early 13c., "difficult, arrogant, severe" (the opposite of affable), from Anglo-French dangerous, Old French dangeros (12c., Modern French dangereux), from danger (see danger). In Chaucer, it means "hard to please, reluctant to give;" sense of "full of danger, risky" is from late 15c. Other words used in this sense included dangersome (1560s), dangerful (1540s). Related: Dangerously.
Example
- 1. Why is property so dangerous ?
- 2. The most dangerous place to fly remains africa .
- 3. That notion is as unscientific as suggesting that water or oxygen is dangerous .
- 4. He called the situation the most dangerous it has been in years .
- 5. Finance is the machine that governs the economy , but it is unstable and dangerous .