Something that is dangerous or very risky can be described with the adjective perilous. If you are driving in a blizzard, you may kick yourself for making such a perilous journey.
Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous;
Adjective S.
fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
a.
Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous;
hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.
a.
Daring; reckless; dangerous.
Perilous
Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds.2.
For I am perilous with knife in hand.--
Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous;
Usage Examples
In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
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Other Usage ExamplesHistory is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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