Meaning of perilous in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈpɛrələs/

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    perilous

    Definitions

    1. fraught with danger

    Examples

    • « 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 »

    Synonyms

Famous quotes

  • « 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. »
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • « A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. »
    Elizabeth I
  • « 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. »
    Thomas Mann
  • « I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. »
    Horatio Nelson
  • « History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. »
    David McCullough

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