ADJECTIVE | all | perilous, parlous, precarious, touch-and-go | fraught with danger |
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Sounds | peh'rahlahs | |
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Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... |
Meaning | fraught with danger. | |
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Example | "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat" | |
Synonyms | parlous, precarious, touch-and-go | |
Broader | dangerous, unsafe | Involving or causing danger or risk |
Spanish | arriesgado, peligroso, temerario | |
Catalan | arriscat, perillós, temerari | |
Nouns | peril | a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury |
peril | a source of danger | |
peril | a state of danger involving risk | |
perilousness | the state of being dangerous | |
Adverbs | perilously | in a dangerous manner |
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