All perilous synonyms
perΒ·ilΒ·ous
P p adj perilous
- dickens β Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812β70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840β41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
- fulminant β occurring suddenly and with great intensity or severity; fulminating.
- fluctuant β fluctuating; varying; unstable.
- impugnable β to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- insecure β subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- awkward β An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- doomful β foreshadowing doom; portentously direful; ominous.
- hazardous β full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- grave β the grave accent.
- all-important β crucial; vital
- dangerous β If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- glace β frozen.
- mischievous β maliciously or playfully annoying.
- convulsive β A convulsive movement or action is sudden and cannot be controlled.
- hairy β covered with hair; having much hair.
- life and death β ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- feller β Robert William Andrew ("Bob"; "Bullet Bob") 1918β2010, U.S. baseball player.
- critical β If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
- changeful β often changing; inconstant; variable
- ill-behaved β 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- insidious β intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- malefic β productive of evil; malign; doing harm; baneful: a malefic spell.
adjective perilous
- dodgy β inclined to dodge.
- eruptive β Of, relating to, or formed by volcanic activity.
- discommodious β Not commodious; uncomfortable.
- chancy β Something that is chancy involves a lot of risk or uncertainty.
- ominous β portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- wicked β evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- dynamite β A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks.
- detonative β (of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously.
- explosive β Able or likely to shatter violently or burst apart, as when a bomb explodes.
- daring β People who are daring are willing to do or say things which are new or which might shock or anger other people.
- jeopardous β perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- exceptive β Exceptional, having an exception.
- forbidding β grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance.
noun perilous
- graveness β serious or solemn; sober: a grave person; grave thoughts.
- chanciness β The quality of being chancy or risky; riskiness.
- awkwardness β lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- hazardousness β The condition of being hazardous.
- momentousness β of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
- weightiness β having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
- gravity β the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
- cumbersomeness β The state of being cumbersome.
- in-convenience β the quality or state of being inconvenient.
- bulkiness β of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.