100 Other Words for “Dangerous”

100 Other Words for

No. Term Definition
1. Accident-prone Likely to cause mishaps.
2. Adventurous Willing to take risky actions.
3. Adverse Harmful; unfavorable to safety.
4. Alarming Causing fear of harm.
5. Anarchic Lawless; prone to violence.
6. Arduous Hard and potentially hazardous.
7. Baleful Threatening harm or evil.
8. Baneful Causing great harm.
9. Barbarous Brutally cruel; perilous.
10. Beware-worthy Meriting caution; unsafe.
11. Booby-trapped Rigged to injure intruders.
12. Brink-of-disaster Close to catastrophe.
13. Calamitous Likely to bring disaster.
14. Cancerous Invasive and destructive.
15. Catastrophic Causing sudden great damage.
16. Combustible Easily set on fire.
17. Contagious Likely to spread disease.
18. Corrosive Able to burn or erode.
19. Critical At a decisive, risky point.
20. Cutthroat Ruthlessly competitive; harmful.
21. Damaging Causing physical or moral harm.
22. Deadly Capable of causing death.
23. Deleterious Harmful to health or well-being.
24. Demolishing Causing ruin or destruction.
25. Destructive Causing serious damage.
26. Dire Extremely serious; urgent threat.
27. Disastrous Leading to great harm or failure.
28. Disease-ridden Full of illness; unsafe.
29. Dreadful Causing great fear or harm.
30. Dubious Questionably safe or reliable.
31. Eerie Strangely unsettling; ominous.
32. Explosive Likely to detonate or erupt.
33. Exposed Unprotected; vulnerable to harm.
34. Extreme Beyond safe limits.
35. Fatal Resulting in death.
36. Fearsome Inspiring fear; threatening.
37. Fiendish Cruelly wicked; harmful.
38. Flammable Catches fire easily.
39. Foolhardy Recklessly bold; unsafe.
40. Foreboding Suggesting impending harm.
41. Formidable Hard to overcome; menacing.
42. Fraught Filled with risk or trouble.
43. Ghastly Shockingly grim; frightening.
44. Grave Serious; potentially fatal.
45. Grim Gloomy and threatening.
46. Hair-raising Extremely frightening or risky.
47. Hazard-laden Full of dangers.
48. Hazardous Involving risk; unsafe.
49. High-risk Very likely to cause harm.
50. Hostile Unfriendly; likely to attack.
51. Hot Wanted by police; risky.
52. Injurious Likely to cause injury.
53. Insecure Not safe; easily compromised.
54. Insidious Harmful in a subtle way.
55. Intemperate Excessive; leading to harm.
56. Jeopardous Full of jeopardy; risky.
57. Jittery Unstable; prone to mishaps.
58. Jolting Suddenly disruptive; unsafe.
59. Jury-rigged Improvised and unreliable.
60. Killer Extremely harmful or lethal.
61. Knotty Complex and risk-prone.
62. Knuckle-headed Foolish and risk-taking.
63. Lethal Capable of killing.
64. Life-threatening Endangering life.
65. Loaded Armed; ready to fire.
66. Lordly-wrathful Severely punitive; menacing.
67. Malevolent Wishing harm to others.
68. Malign Evil in intent; harmful.
69. Malignant Severely harmful; deadly.
70. Menacing Threatening harm.
71. Merciless Showing no pity; brutal.
72. Murderous Likely to kill; bloodthirsty.
73. Nefarious Wicked and criminal.
74. No-go Too unsafe to enter.
75. Ominous Suggesting something bad ahead.
76. Out-of-control Not governed; likely to harm.
77. Overheated Too hot; may ignite or fail.
78. Perilous Full of danger.
79. Poisonous Toxic; able to kill.
80. Precarious Unstable; likely to fall.
81. Predatory Seeking victims; harmful.
82. Prejudicial Causing harm to interests.
83. Pyrotechnic Firework-like; explosive risk.
84. Questionable Not clearly safe.
85. Razor-edged Sharp and likely to cut.
86. Reckless Careless of consequences; risky.
87. Risk-laden Containing many risks.
88. Risky Likely to cause loss or harm.
89. Ruinous Causing severe damage.
90. Sabotaged Deliberately damaged; unsafe.
91. Savage Violent and brutal.
92. Scalding Hot enough to burn.
93. Shaky Unstable; likely to fail.
94. Sketchy Suspicious; not safe.
95. Slippery Likely to cause falls.
96. Stab-worthy Inviting violent retaliation.
97. Stinging Causing sharp pain or harm.
98. Stormy Turbulent; prone to trouble.
99. Tenuous Weak and easily broken.
100. Threatening Likely to cause harm.