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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, delicate, dicey, endangered, fraught with danger, going for broke, hairy*, hanging by a thread, hazardous, iffy, insecure, jeopardous, long shot, not a prayer, off the deep end, on slippery ground, on the spot, on thin ice, out on a limb, perilous, playing with fire, precarious, rocky, sensitive, speculative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, tricky, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, venturesome, wicked, wide-open |
| Antonyms: | assured, certain, safe, sure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | audacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, daring |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, aweless, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky*, courageous, daredevil, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutty, intrepid, nervy, rash, resolute, risky, smart ass, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, valiant, venturesome |
| Antonyms: | cautious, gentle, humble, meek, mild, modest, reserved, timid, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awkward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to handle |
| Synonyms: | annoying, bulky, chancy, cramped, cumbersome, dangerous, disagreeable, discommodious, hard to use, hazardous, incommodious, inconvenient, perilous, risky, troublesome, uncomfortable, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy |
| Antonyms: | convenient, easy, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | critical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | urgently important |
| Synonyms: | acute, all-important, climacteric, conclusive, consequential, crucial, dangerous, deciding, decisive, desperate, determinative, dire, exceptive, grave, hairy*, hazardous, high-priority, integral, momentous, perilous, pivotal, precarious, pressing, risky, serious, significant, strategic, urgent, vital, weighty |
| Antonyms: | trivial, uncritical, unimportant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, jeopardous, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, parlous, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, unhazardous, untroubled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desperate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, outrageous |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, audacious, bold, careless, dangerous, daring, death-defying, determined, devil-may-care, foolhardy, frantic, frenzied, furious, hasty, hazardous, headlong, headstrong, heinous, impetuous, incautious, madcap, monstrous, precipitate, rash, risky, scandalous, shocking, venturesome, violent, wild |
| Antonyms: | confident, content, satisfied, secure, unworried |
| Main Entry: | hairy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, difficult, hazardous, jeopardous, perilous, risky, scary, treacherous, uncertain, unhealthy, unsound, wicked |
| Antonyms: | calm, safe |
| Main Entry: | harmful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, corroding, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, harassing, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malefic, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, undermining, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent |
| Main Entry: | hazardous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, unpredictable |
| Synonyms: | chancy, dicey, difficult, hairy*, haphazard, hot*, insecure, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, venturesome, wicked |
| Antonyms: | certain, guarded, predictable, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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