Perilous

3 definitions found

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

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  perilous
       adj : 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}, {precarious}, {touch-and-go}]

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

  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