- 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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How to use perilous in a sentence
The road had been built for bringing down lumber, and for six miles it was at perilous angles.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
Moreover, when we come to pay off, the crew will receive a bonus, in consideration of the long and perilous voyage.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND
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WORDS RELATED TO PERILOUS
- annoying
- bulky
- chancy
- cramped
- cumbersome
- dangerous
- disagreeable
- discommodious
- hard to use
- hazardous
- incommodious
- inconvenient
- perilous
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- troublesome
- uncomfortable
- unhandy
- unmanageable
- unwieldy
- acute
- all-important
- bottom-line
- climacteric
- conclusive
- consequential
- crucial
- dangerous
- deciding
- decisive
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- determinative
- dire
- exceptive
- grave
- hairy
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- high-priority
- integral
- momentous
- perilous
- pivotal
- precarious
- pressing
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- serious
- significant
- strategic
- urgent
- vital
- weighty
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- no-go
- 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
- hazardous
- heavy
- important
- killing
- life-and-death
- major
- momentous
- of great consequence
- ominous
- perilous
- pressing
- serious
- severe
- significant
- threatening
- ugly
- urgent
- vital
- weighty
- acute
- afflictive
- consequential
- critical
- deadly
- destructive
- dire
- exigent
- fatal
- fell
- grievous
- hazardous
- heavy
- important
- killing
- life-and-death
- major
- momentous
- of great consequence
- ominous
- perilous
- pressing
- serious
- severe
- significant
- threatening
- ugly
- urgent
- vital
- weighty
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absurd, awkward, chancy, close, clouded, en.synonym.one, critical, dangerous, dire, doubtful, dubious, endangered, fearful, foolish, gloomy, grim, hazardous, mad, narrow, near, nonsensical, ominous, precarious, reckless, risky, senseless, en.synonym.one, ticklish, treacherous, undependable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unsubstantial, venturous, dangerous, endangered, exposed, precarious, unarmed, en.synonym.one, undefended, unsheltered, vulnerable, parlous, touch-and-go.
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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.
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adv.
• out on a limb (adverb)
- out a limb,
- out limb,
- up tree.
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adv
• Other relevant words: (adverb)
- out on limb,
- up a tree,
- out on a limb.
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n.
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•
- venturesome,
- adventurous,
- safety,
- hairy.
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v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)
- behaviour.
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Other synonyms:
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•
- 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.
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•
- deadly,
- sticky,
- ferocious,
- poisonous,
- hostile,
- unsound,
- glowering,
- devastating,
- ill,
- chancy,
- venturous.
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•
- 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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Adjective
hazardous, precarious, risky, unsafe.
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Proper noun, singular
hazardous.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
challenging, critical, daring, difficult, fragile, grave, high-risk, insecure, parlous, pernicious, serious, severe, slippery, tenuous, threatening, vicious, life-threatening.
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Adjective
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Adjective
treacherous.
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