Hazardous
['hæzədəs] or ['hæzɚdəs]
Definition
(adj.) involving risk or danger; 'skydiving is a hazardous sport'; 'extremely risky going out in the tide and fog'; 'a wild financial scheme' .
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Definition
(a.) Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dangerous, perilous, RISKY, unsafe, fraught with danger.
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Examples
- He applied to a Mr. Atherton, and the latter, although he considered the venture a hazardous one, sent him two workmen to help in building his first machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Admiral Porter proceeded with the preparation of the steamers for their hazardous passage of the enemy's batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Bankruptcies are most frequent in the most hazardous trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Many delicate operations can now be performed for the relief of long-continued diseases which before would have been hazardous or impossible. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was possible to go on horseback as far as the Vaqueria, though the road was somewhat hazardous in places. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They showed that they cared nothing to perform hazardous feats simply because of the hazard, nor to establish records. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mrs. Clements did all in her power to oppose the execution of this hazardous and unaccountable project. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In this predicament he ventured on the hazardous experiment of taking his steam-vessel by sea, and successfully accomplished his voyage from New York to Delaware. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Sheridan had in this way consumed so much time that his making a march to White House was now somewhat hazardous. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had no charts, and it was a hazardous thing to sail into the shallow water in a bad light. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the distance was great, and the climate hazardous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The journey was hazardous on account of Indians, and there were white men in Texas whom I would not have cared to meet in a secluded place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Humphreys was alone, confronting him all through the day, and in a very hazardous position. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That is saying too much: such hazardous affirmations are a proof of the excitement under which you labour. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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