perilous

3 definitions found

perilous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Perilous \Per"il*ous\, a. [OF. perillous, perilleus, F.
     p['e]rilleux, L. periculosus. See Peril.] [Written also
     perillous.]
     1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous;
        hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.
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              Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. --Milton.
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     2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. [Obs.] --Latimer.
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              For I am perilous with knife in hand. --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster] -- Per"il*ous*ly, adv. --
        Per"il*ous*ness, n.
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perilous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  perilous
      adj 1: fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous
             journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the
             Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an
             undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-
             and-go recovery" [syn: parlous, perilous,
             precarious, touch-and-go]

perilous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "perilous":
     alarming, bad, chancy, critical, dangerous, dangersome, delicate,
     desultory, explosive, fraught with danger, hairy, hazardous,
     infirm, insecure, insubstantial, jeopardous, menacing, parlous,
     periculous, precarious, provisional, risky, serious, shaky,
     shifting, shifty, slippery, susceptible, temporary, tentative,
     threatening, ticklish, tottery, touchy, treacherous, ugly,
     uncertain, undependable, unfaithworthy, unhealthy, unreliable,
     unsafe, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady,
     unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, vulnerable, wicked