Perilous синонимы

  • delicate
  • dicey
  • hazardous
  • precarious
  • risky
  • rugged
  • shaky
  • threatening
  • ticklish
  • touchy
  • treacherous
  • uncertain
  • unstable
  • Russian roulette
  • chancy
  • dynamite
  • exposed
  • hairy
  • insecure
  • loaded
  • on thin ice
  • playing with fire
  • touch and go
  • unhealthy
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unsteady
  • unsure
  • vulnerable
  • wicked

On this page you’ll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to perilous, such as: delicate, dicey, hazardous, precarious, risky, and rugged.

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The road had been built for bringing down lumber, and for six miles it was at perilous angles.

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Moreover, when we come to pay off, the crew will receive a bonus, in consideration of the long and perilous voyage.

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WORDS RELATED TO PERILOUS

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  • uncomfortable
  • unhandy
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  • acute
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  • bottom-line
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  • on collision course
  • parlous
  • perilous
  • portentous
  • precarious
  • pressing
  • queasy
  • risky
  • serious
  • serpentine
  • shaky
  • speculative
  • terrible
  • thorny
  • threatening
  • ticklish
  • touch-and-go
  • touchy
  • treacherous
  • ugly
  • unhealthy
  • unsafe
  • unstable
  • urgent
  • viperous
  • vulnerable
  • wicked
  • at the boiling point
  • bursting
  • charged
  • consequential
  • convulsive
  • detonative
  • ebullient
  • eruptive
  • fiery
  • forceful
  • frenzied
  • fulminant
  • fulminating
  • hazardous
  • impetuous
  • meteoric
  • overwrought
  • perilous
  • raging
  • rampant
  • stormy
  • tense
  • touchy
  • ugly
  • uncontrollable
  • unstable
  • vehement
  • violent
  • wild
  • acute
  • afflictive
  • consequential
  • critical
  • deadly
  • destructive
  • dire
  • exigent
  • fatal
  • fell
  • grievous
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  • heavy
  • important
  • killing
  • life-and-death
  • major
  • momentous
  • of great consequence
  • ominous
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  • killing
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  • major
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  • of great consequence
  • ominous
  • perilous
  • pressing
  • serious
  • severe
  • significant
  • threatening
  • ugly
  • urgent
  • vital
  • weighty

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407 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pˈɛɹɪləs], [ pˈɛɹɪləs], [ p_ˈɛ_ɹ_ɪ_l_ə_s]

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  • adj.

    adverse (adjective)

    • calamitous,
    • difficult,
    • antipathetic,
    • tragic,
    • detrimental,
    • unfriendly,
    • miserable,
    • distressful,
    • adverse,
    • hard,
    • inauspicious,
    • opposing,
    • troublesome,
    • untoward,
    • woeful,
    • catastrophic,
    • grievous,
    • burdensome,
    • unfavorable,
    • disastrous,
    • unfortunate,
    • unlucky,
    • unpropitious.

    awkward (adjective)

    • dis-commodious,
    • unhandier,
    • un handy,
    • un-handiest,
    • un comfortable,
    • un-comfortable,
    • more discommodious,
    • un wieldier,
    • inconvenient,
    • un-handy,
    • dis commodious,
    • un wieldiest,
    • in commodious,
    • un-manageable,
    • un wieldy,
    • in-convenient,
    • un-wieldier,
    • un-handier,
    • un manageable,
    • dis agreeable,
    • unhandiest,
    • dis-agreeable,
    • in convenient,
    • in-commodious,
    • most discommodious,
    • un-wieldiest,
    • un-wieldy,
    • un handiest,
    • un handier.

    critical (adjective)

    • high-priority,
    • pivotal,
    • Exceptive,
    • all-important.

    dangerous (adjective)

    • exposed,
    • risky,
    • delicate,
    • threatening,
    • dynamite,
    • on collision course,
    • unstable,
    • portentous,
    • Russian Roulette,
    • unsafe,
    • vulnerable,
    • loaded,
    • dicey,
    • touchy,
    • unsteady,
    • touch and go,
    • rugged,
    • wicked,
    • unsure,
    • ticklish,
    • menacing,
    • uncertain,
    • parlous,
    • dangersome,
    • shaky,
    • treacherous,
    • Jeopardous.

    difficult (adjective)

    • scabrous.

    explosive (adjective)

    • ex plosive,
    • more fulminating,
    • raging,
    • more fulminant,
    • most fulminating,
    • most detonative,
    • most eruptive,
    • un controllable,
    • more detonative,
    • at boiling point,
    • ex-plosive,
    • more detonating,
    • most detonating,
    • more convulsive,
    • more eruptive,
    • un-controllable,
    • most convulsive,
    • most fulminant.

    grave (adjective)

    • killing,
    • most killing,
    • feller,
    • more killing,
    • fellest.

    hairy (adjective)

    • scarier,
    • scary.

    insecure (adjective)

    • in securer,
    • un steadier,
    • in-securest,
    • in secure,
    • un-guarded,
    • unprotected,
    • more rootless,
    • unguarded,
    • un-shielded,
    • most rootless,
    • in-substantial,
    • un shielded,
    • un steady,
    • more unshielded,
    • more fluctuant,
    • open attack,
    • most unshielded,
    • un steadiest,
    • un-protected,
    • un-steadier,
    • in substantial,
    • most fluctuant,
    • rickety,
    • in-securer,
    • in securest,
    • in-secure,
    • un-steadiest,
    • un guarded,
    • un protected,
    • un-reliable,
    • un reliable.

    insidious (adjective)

    • like a snake in the grass,
    • perfidious.

    mischievous (adjective)

    • ex asperating,
    • mis-behaving,
    • teasing,
    • illbehaved,
    • ex-asperating,
    • more exasperating,
    • most illbehaved,
    • most misbehaving,
    • more misbehaving,
    • most rascally,
    • ill behaved,
    • most ill-behaved,
    • holy terror,
    • more vexing,
    • more ill-behaved,
    • most dickens,
    • more rascally,
    • more ill behaved,
    • more rascal,
    • impish,
    • more illbehaved,
    • most rascal,
    • most vexing,
    • more dickens,
    • mischievous,
    • most exasperating,
    • most ill behaved,
    • mis behaving.

    ominous (adjective)

    • in auspicious,
    • un-promising,
    • Ill-boding,
    • most presaging,
    • most premonitory,
    • un lucky,
    • in hospitable,
    • most doomful,
    • un friendliest,
    • un-friendliest,
    • more unpromising,
    • illfated,
    • un friendlier,
    • more presaging,
    • more precursive,
    • pre monitory,
    • most malificent,
    • un-friendlier,
    • most precursive,
    • pre-cursive,
    • un luckiest,
    • un-luckiest,
    • ill fated,
    • in-auspicious,
    • more premonitory,
    • pre cursive,
    • more doomful,
    • un promising,
    • illboding,
    • un propitious,
    • un-friendly,
    • un luckier,
    • un-lucky,
    • ill boding,
    • in-hospitable,
    • more malificent,
    • most malefic,
    • most unpromising,
    • un-luckier,
    • pre-monitory,
    • more malefic.

    Other relevant words: (adjective)

    • eruptive,
    • ominous,
    • convulsive,
    • hanging by thread,
    • premonitory,
    • life and death,
    • slippery,
    • awkward,
    • glace,
    • malificent,
    • off deep end,
    • at the boiling point,
    • critical,
    • tight,
    • insecure,
    • open to attack,
    • on a limb,
    • Discommodious,
    • over-wrought,
    • not a prayer,
    • precarious,
    • tottering,
    • fulminant,
    • unpeaceful,
    • in firm,
    • hazardous,
    • fraught with danger,
    • unshielded,
    • grave,
    • explosive,
    • unpromising,
    • Unhandy,
    • on thin ice,
    • ill-behaved,
    • dangerous,
    • Fluctuant,
    • unrestful,
    • wide open,
    • on slippery ground,
    • rascally,
    • going for broke,
    • detonative,
    • insidious,
    • changeful,
    • touch-and-go,
    • dickens,
    • playing with fire,
    • rootless,
    • hard to use,
    • of great consequence,
    • hard use,
    • unhealthy,
    • on the spot,
    • Doomful,
    • Precursive,
    • unsettled,
    • malefic.

    precarious (adjective)

    • hanging by a thread,
    • touch go,
    • in-decisive,
    • pre-carious,
    • most impugnable,
    • un sure,
    • more impugnable,
    • in decisive,
    • pre carious,
    • impugnable,
    • un-sure.

    risky (adjective)

    • not prayer,
    • wideopen,
    • end angered,
    • off the deep end,
    • on spot,
    • end-angered.

    slippery (adjective)

    • most glace,
    • like a skating rink,
    • more glace,
    • like skating rink.

    tight (adjective)

    • up-setting,
    • ex acting,
    • up setting,
    • ex-acting.

    tottering (adjective)

    • in-firmest,
    • in firmer,
    • in-firmer,
    • in firmest.

    tottery (adjective)

    • tottery.

    treacherous (adjective)

    • mis-leading,
    • un dependable,
    • mis leading,
    • more dissembled,
    • most dissembled,
    • un-dependable.

    unsafe (adjective)

    • on limb,
    • un safer,
    • un-trustworthy,
    • un-safest,
    • un-safe,
    • fearsome,
    • un safe,
    • un safest,
    • un-safer.

    unsettled (adjective)

    • more changeful,
    • un-easiest,
    • un easier,
    • un restful,
    • mutable,
    • un quieter,
    • most unpeaceful,
    • un-settled,
    • dis orderly,
    • un-restful,
    • un-quietest,
    • most rattled,
    • un quiet,
    • un quietest,
    • un-balanced,
    • most unnerved,
    • un easy,
    • un-predictable,
    • un easiest,
    • un nerved,
    • un settled,
    • most shifting,
    • in-constant,
    • un peaceful,
    • dis-orderly,
    • un-nerved,
    • most unrestful,
    • more unpeaceful,
    • un predictable,
    • more unnerved,
    • unnerved,
    • un-quiet,
    • un-peaceful,
    • most changeful,
    • un-quieter,
    • un-easier,
    • more unrestful,
    • more rattled.
  • adv.

    out on a limb (adverb)

    • out a limb,
    • out limb,
    • up tree.
  • adv

    Other relevant words: (adverb)

    • out on limb,
    • up a tree,
    • out on a limb.
  • n.

    • venturesome,
    • adventurous,
    • safety,
    • hairy.
  • v.

    Other relevant words: (verb)

    • behaviour.
  • Other synonyms:

    • dangerously,
    • prejudicial,
    • malign,
    • harmful,
    • ruinous,
    • cataclysmic,
    • perilously,
    • sketchy,
    • destructive,
    • pernicious,
    • lunatic,
    • deleterious,
    • suicidal,
    • undesirable,
    • wanton,
    • mortally,
    • inimical,
    • lethal,
    • damaging,
    • marauding,
    • combustible,
    • injurious,
    • overactive,
    • noxious,
    • kamikaze.

    • deadly,
    • sticky,
    • ferocious,
    • poisonous,
    • hostile,
    • unsound,
    • glowering,
    • devastating,
    • ill,
    • chancy,
    • venturous.

    • mortal,
    • terrible,
    • fatal,
    • seriously,
    • suspect,
    • volatile.

    • nasty.

    • negative.

    • hot.

How to use «Perilous» in context?

The word «perilous» is typically used to describe something that is dangerous, especially if it is out of the ordinary. For example, jumping off a bridge into a river below is perilous because the water below is often very fast and turbulent. It can be dangerous to venture into a dangerous area, even if you are fully prepared for the danger.

Paraphrases for Perilous:

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  • Equivalence

    • Adjective
      hazardous, precarious, risky, unsafe.
    • Proper noun, singular
      hazardous.
  • Independent

    • Adjective
      challenging, critical, daring, difficult, fragile, grave, high-risk, insecure, parlous, pernicious, serious, severe, slippery, tenuous, threatening, vicious, life-threatening.
  • Other Related

    • Adjective
      treacherous.

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