Hazardous \Haz"ard*ous\ (-[u^]s), a. [Cf. F. hasardeux.]
Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.
[1913 Webster]
To enterprise so hazardous and high! --Milton.
Syn: Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous;
venturesome; precarious; uncertain. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hazardous
adj : involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport";
"extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a
venturesome journey in wintertime"; "a venturous
enterprise" [syn: risky, venturesome, venturous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "hazardous":
adventurous, aleatory, chancy, dangerous, desultory, dicey, dickey,
fraught with danger, full of risk, hairy, infirm, insecure,
insubstantial, jeopardous, parlous, perilous, precarious,
provisional, questionable, riskful, risky, shaky, shifting, shifty,
slippery, speculative, temporary, tentative, ticklish, treacherous,
tricky, uncertain, undependable, unfaithworthy, unhealthy,
unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe, unsolid, unsound, unstable,
unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy,
venturesome, venturous, wicked, wildcat
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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