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100 Best Synonyms for “Perilous”

September 14, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. accident-prone likely to lead to accidents
2. aggressive ready to attack or harm
3. alarming causing fear of danger
4. arduous difficult and risky
5. at risk in danger of harm
6. baleful threatening harm or evil
7. baneful causing harm or ruin
8. belligerent hostile and threatening
9. bloodcurdling terrifyingly dangerous
10. breakneck dangerously fast or reckless
11. brutal harsh and dangerous
12. calamitous bringing disaster or misery
13. chancy full of risk
14. charged filled with tense danger
15. contagious able to spread disease
16. corrosive able to burn or destroy
17. critical dangerously serious or unstable
18. dangerous likely to cause harm
19. deadly likely to cause death
20. death-defying extremely dangerous
21. deleterious causing harm or damage
22. destructive causing great damage
23. dicey somewhat dangerous or uncertain
24. dire extremely serious or urgent
25. disastrous causing great harm
26. endangered seriously at risk
27. epidemic spreading dangerously widely
28. explosive likely to erupt violently
29. exposed left unprotected from danger
30. fatal causing death or disaster
31. fateful having serious dangerous consequences
32. fearsome causing fear or danger
33. ferocious violently dangerous
34. formidable inspiring fear or caution
35. fraught filled with danger or trouble
36. grave seriously dangerous or severe
37. hairy dangerous or difficult
38. harmful causing damage or injury
39. harrowing extremely distressing and dangerous
40. hazard-filled full of hazards
41. hazardous full of risk or danger
42. high-risk involving great danger
43. hostile unfriendly and threatening
44. ill-fated doomed to bad results
45. ill-starred likely to end badly
46. imperiled put in danger
47. in jeopardy in danger or at risk
48. infectious capable of spreading infection
49. injurious causing harm or damage
50. killer extremely dangerous or deadly
51. knife-edge extremely dangerous or uncertain
52. lethal capable of causing death
53. life-threatening seriously risking death
54. loaded full of hidden danger
55. malignant very harmful or dangerous
56. menacing suggesting serious danger
57. mortal causing or risking death
58. murderous capable of killing
59. noxious harmful or poisonous
60. ominous giving a sense of danger
61. on a knife-edge in extreme danger or uncertainty
62. on dangerous ground in a risky situation
63. on thin ice in a risky situation
64. pathogenic capable of causing disease
65. pernicious very harmful in a gradual way
66. pitched on a precipice placed in grave danger
67. poisonous capable of causing poisoning
68. precarious dangerously unstable or uncertain
69. punishing severely demanding or harmful
70. radioactive dangerously emitting radiation
71. rife with danger full of danger
72. risk-laden full of risk
73. risky involving possible danger or loss
74. rough harsh and potentially dangerous
75. ruinous causing severe damage or loss
76. savage fierce and dangerous
77. septic infected and dangerous
78. serious dangerously important or severe
79. shaky unstable and unsafe
80. sinister suggesting evil or danger
81. stormy violent and dangerous
82. thorny difficult and risky to handle
83. threatened under danger or risk
84. threatening showing possible danger or harm
85. ticklish difficult and potentially risky
86. touch-and-go very uncertain and risky
87. toxic poisonous and harmful
88. treacherous dangerous in a deceptive way
89. tricky difficult and risky
90. uncertain not reliably safe or sure
91. under threat facing possible harm
92. unsafe not safe or secure
93. unsound not safe or reliable
94. unstable not steady or secure
95. violent using or involving force
96. virulent extremely harmful or dangerous
97. volatile likely to change dangerously
98. vulnerable open to harm or attack
99. white-knuckle causing intense fear or risk
100. wild uncontrolled and dangerous

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