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| 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
- 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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