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hazardous


hazardous

adjective

Definition of HAZARDOUS

involving potential loss or injury <a hazardous journey across the arctic ice>
Synonyms grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unhealthy, unsafe, venturesome
Related Words dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain; ultrahazardous; chance, haphazard, random; distressing, sickening, unpleasant; ugly, wicked; adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilent; deadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous
Near Antonyms advantageous, beneficial, good; ultrasafe
Antonyms harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening
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