Synonyms for danger
Definitions
- n. 1
Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
There's plenty of danger in the desert.
Related words
- Word family
- dangerless dangersome dangerous
- Phrases
- danger money danger pay danger noodle danger triangle
Forms
- Plural
- dangers → perils, risks, hazards, jeopardies…
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Danger is exposure to possible evil, which may be either near and probable or remote and doubtful; peril is exposure to imminent and sharply threatening evil, especially to such as results from violence. An invalid may be in danger of consumption; a disarmed soldier is in peril of death.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- risk Sleep deprivation increases risk of heart attacks.
- hazard Ziri noticed a vehicle with its hazard lights on.
- jeopardy Yanni was in jeopardy somehow by living with Skura.
- peril Many wild animals are in peril of losing their lives.
By length
- 4 letters
- risk1
- 5 letters
- peril2
- 6 letters
- threat1, hazard2, menace2
- 7 letters
- venture2
- 8 letters
- exposure3, jeopardy3
- 9 letters
- adventure3
- 10 letters
- insecurity5
- 14 letters
- precariousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (peril2 = 2 syllables).