- Dangerousness
- Dangerous Dan"ger*ous, a. [OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous,
fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See {Danger}.]
1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous;
hazardous; unsafe.
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Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
It is dangerous to assert a negative. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. [1913 Webster]
If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] --Forby. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] ``Of his speech dangerous.'' --Chaucer. -- {Dan"ger*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Dan"ger*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
