dangerous
Full of danger.
Adjective 3 meanings
Full of danger.
“Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.”
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
Etymology
From Middle English daungerous (“difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger”), dangerous, from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French dangereus (“threatening, difficult”), from dangier. Equivalent to danger + -ous. Displaced native Old English frēcne.
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DANGEROUS at a glance
DANGEROUS has 9 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (D 2 + A 1 + N 1 + G 2 + E 1 + R 1 + O 1 + U 1 + S 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,644 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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