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dangersome
adjective as in dangerous
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in jeopardous
Weak matches
- adventurous
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- hazardous
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- 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
- venturesome
- venturous
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
adjective as in parlous
Weak matches
- adventurous
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- hazardous
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- on collision course
- perilous
- portentous
- precarious
- pressing
- queasy
- risky
- serious
- serpentine
- shaky
- speculative
- terrible
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- ugly
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unstable
- urgent
- venturesome
- venturous
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
Example Sentences
I tries to make my voice sound like I'm scared half to death, which it don't call for no great amount of putting-on on my part neither, because she has done shed all her laziness and all her silkiness and all her smoothness same as a blue-racer sheds his skin in the spring of the year, and she's done bared her real het-up dangersome self before me.
People lived in them yet, but it was dangersome, because sometimes a strip of land as wide as a house caves in at a time.
Den he’d peartin’ up, an’ he alwuz rode at de head o’ de company ’cause he wuz tall; an’ hit wan’ on’y in battles whar all his company wuz dat he went, but he use’ to volunteer whenever de cun’l wanted anybody to fine out anythin’, an’ ’twuz so dangersome he didn’ like to mek one man go no sooner’n anudder, yo’ know, an’ ax’d who’d volunteer.
"Water ain't dangersome, nowise," retorted the elderly Persimmon, with a snarling smile.
I mind moonshinin' 'kase it's dangersome fur the moonshiners.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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