1. dangerous
It's dangerous!
Our policies and systems are getting outdated and need revising, but to try to swap horses while crossing a stream might be dangerous.
When suddenly faced with a dangerous situation, hold your horses - make sure of the proper action, then act.
Packed into wooden fishing boats like sardines, the immigrants undergo the dangerous voyage there.
She caught sight of the tautology that she was looking for in a crowd of other, equally useless and potentially dangerous, tautologies.
When you swallow a dangerous substance, what you need to do depends on what you swallowed.
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
Life is as a box of matches. Treating it cautiously is foolish, not treating it cautiously is dangerous.
They move from place to place, often change jobs, divorce more frequently, and take economic and social risks which seem dangerous.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one or two children; and probably for the same reasons.
Hence one can say that, of all political ideals, that of making people happy is the most dangerous.
Finally, in 1314, these games had become so violent and dangerous that King Edward II made a law.
The weight of the world is a dangerous thing to try to bear. Take only a small fraction, and the rest of it will soon follow - crushing you.
Uncontrolled, these forces may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered they can be bent to man's will and desire.
Angielskie słowo "nguy hiểm" (dangerous) występuje w zestawach:
300 tính từ tiếng Anh 226 - 2502. danger
There's danger that the levee will break. We have to evacuate immediately.
The possibility of suffering harm or injury. A person or thing that is likely to cause harm or injury. Drought is a danger.
Danger ahead.
It is strange that a cameraman heading for a war-zone should not know about the danger of unexploded shells. The newspaper company is being negligent in its training.
I'd stop worrying about it and take some action. The anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face.
Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.
If the demolition of buildings is uncontrolled, a fine city is in danger of becoming nothing more than a concrete jungle.
According to pernickety moderators, non-sentences constitute a mortal danger to Tatoeba.
There's also the danger of unexploded bombs, so they reported it to the police and the area was taped off to keep people out.
The danger of AIDS came home to me when I saw a documentary film on it last night.
On his return the chaste caresses of his wife amply recompenced the warrior for the fatigues he had undergone and for the danger which he had been exposed.
Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?
If you're with me as a staff officer then I need you to bring a sense of danger with you to your work.
3. perilous
The situation looks less perilous, lets go to the shop.
This is a photograph that shows a hatchling about to taste saltwater for the very first time beginning this long and perilous journey.
a perilous adventure/journey; a perilous sea voyage
a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
Trying to maneuver the massive swell, Garrett found himself within 10 feet of the perilous rocks as the wave diminished.
A shark is perilous.
When James P. Pfiffner, a political scientist at George Mason University, compared the White House crises that confronted Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton, he identified a perilous strain of confidence.
The roads in the village are quite perilous, you ought to drive carefully there.