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Antonyms for hazardous


Grammar : Adj
Spell : haz-er-duhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæz ər dəs



Definition of hazardous

Origin :
  • 1580s, "venturesome;" 1610s, "perilous," from hazard (n.) + -ous or from Middle French hasardeux (16c.).
  • adj dangerous, unpredictable
Example sentences :
  • Of all the hazardous ventures in which the detective had been engaged, this was certainly not the least hazardous.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • This is a strange and hazardous situation in which we are placed.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Wherever he had elected to crouch and tremble, it was too hazardous to go near him.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • The condition of his heart was hazardous and she had been told that any excitement might be fatal.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • The descent was as anxious and hazardous as the ascent had been laborious.
  • Extract from : « Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled » by Hudson Stuck
  • I think, at present, the risk would be too hazardous, and so I wish you a good night.
  • Extract from : « A Simple Story » by Mrs. Inchbald
  • Foreign trade was lucrative in just the proportion that it was hazardous.
  • Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
  • The publication of American books at this time was a hazardous enterprise.
  • Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
  • The enterprise was so hazardous, that no one would venture on so great a risk.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 » by Mrs. Thomson
  • Life in the East is fierce, short, hazardous, and in extremes.
  • Extract from : « Rubiyt of Omar Khayym and Salmn and Absl » by Omar Khayym and Ralph Waldo Emerson

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