Hazardous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hazardous \Haz"ard*ous\ (-[u^]s), a. [Cf. F. hasardeux.]
     Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           To enterprise so hazardous and high!     --Milton.
  


     Syn: Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous;
          venturesome; precarious; uncertain. -- {Haz"ard*ous*ly},
          adv. -- {Haz"ard*ous*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hazardous
       adj : involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport";
             "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a
             venturesome journey in wintertime"; "a venturous
             enterprise" [syn: {risky}, {venturesome}, {venturous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "hazardous":
     adventurous, aleatory, chancy, dangerous, desultory, dicey, dickey,
     fraught with danger, full of risk, hairy, infirm, insecure,
     insubstantial, jeopardous, parlous, perilous, precarious,
     provisional, questionable, riskful, risky, shaky, shifting, shifty,
     slippery, speculative, temporary, tentative, ticklish, treacherous,
     tricky, uncertain, undependable, unfaithworthy, unhealthy,
     unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe, unsolid, unsound, unstable,
     unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy,
     venturesome, venturous, wicked, wildcat