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dangerous

adj
/ˈdeɪn.ʒ(ə.)ɹəs/UK/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒ(ə.)ɹəs/CA/ˈdæɪn.ʒ(ə.)ɹəs/

Etymology

From Middle English dangerous (“difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger”), daungerous, from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French dangereus (“threatening, difficult”), from dangier. Equivalent to danger + -ous. Displaced native Old English frēcne.

  1. derived from dangereus
  2. inherited from dangerous

Definitions

  1. Full of danger.

    • Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
    • [I]t is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.
    • Young Indians looking for work opportunities have made up a sizeable portion of undocumented migrants in the US, many after making the dangerous trek through Latin America to reach the US southern border.

  2. Causing danger

    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 he 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.

  3. In a condition of danger, as from illness

    In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

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Derived

a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little learning is a dangerous thing, armed and dangerous, dangerosity, Dangerous Corner, dangerous goods, dangerousness, nondangerous, semidangerous, undangerous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dangerous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01dangerous02illness03health04malfunction05functioning06wider07wide08overweight09safety

A definitional loop anchored at dangerous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at dangerous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA