Synset

involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 22 freq. cnt.: 22

sample sentences

"a dangerous criminal"
"a dangerous bridge"
"unemployment reached dangerous proportions"

lexical pointers

antonym

derivationally related form

danger danger dangerousness

semantic pointers

also see

insecure, unsafe vulnerable

similar to

breakneck chancy, chanceful, dicey, dodgy desperate risky, hazardous, wild insidious mordacious on the hook perilous, precarious, parlous, touch-and-go self-destructive, suicidal treacherous, unreliable