Define the word perilous"Perilous" gcide "The 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" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
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]
"perilous" moby-thes "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
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