Word Meanings - DANGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier , F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer. 2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to

Additional info about word: DANGER

difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier , F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer. 2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. See In one's danger, below. You stand within his danger, do you not Shak. Covetousness of gains hath brought in dangerof this statute. Robynson . 3. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity. 4. Difficulty; sparingness. Chaucer. 5. Coyness; disdainful behavior. Chaucer. In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. This sense is retained in the proverb, "Out of debt out of danger." Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To do danger, to cause danger. Shak. Syn. -- Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy. -- Danger, Peril, Hazard, Risk, Jeopardy. Danger is the generic term, and implies some contingent evil in prospect. Peril is instant or impending danger; as, in peril of one's life. Hazard arises from something fortuitous or beyond our control; as, the hazard of the seas. Risk is doubtful or uncertain danger, often incurred voluntarily; as, to risk an engagement. Jeopardy is extreme danger. Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of shipwreck; the hazards of speculation; the risk of daring enterprises; a life brought into jeopardy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DANGER)

• Hazard
• Peril
• risk
• jeopardy
• danger
• chance
• imperil
• dare
• Jeopardy
• Danger
• peril
• hazard
• insecurity
• uncertainty
• unsafety
• venture
• Risk
• exposure

Related words: (words related to DANGER)

• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• PERILLA
  A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• CHANCEL
  lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
• DANGERLESS
  Free from danger.
• CHANCEABLY
  By chance.
• VENTURER
  1. One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer. Beau. & Fl. 2. A strumpet; a prostitute. J. Webster .
• CHANCERY
  1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now
• HAZARDRY
  1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. Chaucer. 2. Rashness; temerity. Spenser.
• HAZARDER
  1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. Chaucer. 2. One who hazards or ventures.
• IMPERIL
  To bring into peril; to endanger.
• HAZARDOUS
  Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. To enterprise so hazardous and high! Milton. Syn. -- Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome; precarious; uncertain. -- Haz"ard*ous*ly, adv. -- Haz"ard*ous*ness, n.
• HAZARD
  Holing a ball, whether the object ball or the player's ball . 5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." Shak. Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. --
• JEOPARDY
  Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger. There came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. Luke viii. 23. Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy. Shak. Syn. -- Danger; peril; hazard; risk.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• AVENTURE
  A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire. (more info) 1. Accident; chance; adventure. Chaucer.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• SLIPPERILY
  In a slippery manner.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• DISADVENTURE
  Misfortune; mishap. Sir W. Raleigh.
• COADVENTURER
  A fellow adventurer.
• COADVENTURE
  An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
• MISCHANCE
  Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
• BECHANCE
  By chance; by accident. Grafton.
• ADVENTURESOME
  Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.