Dangerous
Dangerous , adjective
[Old English, haughty, difficult, dangerous, from Old French dangereus, French 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.
It is dangerous to assert a negative.
2.
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you dangerous
To less than gods.
3.
In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloquial] — Forby. Bartlett
4.
Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obsolete]
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small;
My lord to me is hard and dangerous.
5.
Reserved; not affable. [Obsolete]
Of his speech dangerous.