Dan″ger‐ous (?), a. [OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See Danger.] 1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;
The ways are dangerous. Shak.
It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay.
2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you dangerous
To less than gods. Milton.
3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. Forby. Bartlett.
4. Hard to suit; difficult to please.
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small;
My lord to me is hard and dangerous. Chaucer.
5. Reserved; not affable. “Of his speech dangerous.” Chaucer.
— Dan″ger‐ous‐ly, adv. — Dan″ger‐ous‐ness, n.