# dangerous

Pronunciation: say "DAYN-juh-ruhs" /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəs/

## Adjective

1. Involving risk or likely to cause harm, injury, or damage.
   - Simple: Likely to hurt or harm someone or something.
   - _Drunk drivers are dangerous to everyone else on the road._
   - _She warned the tenants that the frayed wiring was dangerous._

## Adjective

2. In serious danger of dying, especially from illness; in a critical condition. *(dated)*
   - Simple: In danger of dying, usually because of a serious illness.

## Origin

From Middle English dangerous (meaning difficult, severe, or full of danger), borrowed through Anglo-Norman from Old French dangereus ("threatening, difficult"), from dangier. It is equivalent to danger plus the suffix -ous, and it replaced the native Old English word frēcne.

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