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comparative more dangerous, superlative most dangerous
Full of danger. quotations examples
[I]t is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. quotations examples
If they incline to think you dangerous, / They have their knaviſh Arts to make you ſo.
1696, Tho[mas] Southerne, Oroonoko: A Tragedy […], London: […] H[enry] Playford […]; B[enjamin] Tooke […]; [a]nd S. Buckley […], act III, scene ii, page 41
And the Duke thought: The truth could he worse than he imagines, but even dangerous facts are valuable if you’ve been trained to deal with them. And there’s one place where nothing has been spared for my son—dealing with dangerous facts.
1965, Frank Herbert, Dune (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, page 49
(colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. examples