dangers

The word “dangers” has 2 syllables: dan-gers

It's pronounced as /ˈdeɪnʤərz/


What is synonym and antonym for dangers?

In the thesaurus, “dangers” has 39 synonyms and 22 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for dangers along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for dangers

  • booby traps
  • clouds
  • crisis
  • double trouble
  • dynamite
  • emergency
  • endangerment
  • exigency
  • exposure
  • hazards
  • hot potato
  • imminences
  • insecurity
  • instability
  • jeopardy
  • menace
  • menaces
  • peril
  • perils
  • pitfall
  • pitfalls
  • possibility
  • precariousness
  • precipice
  • probability
  • risk
  • risks
  • risky business
  • slipperiness
  • snares
  • storm
  • thin ice
  • threat
  • threats
  • traps
  • troubles
  • uncertainty
  • venture
  • vulnerability

Antonyms for dangers

  • asylums
  • calm
  • care
  • carefulness
  • certainty
  • guard
  • guards
  • harbors
  • havens
  • peace
  • preservation
  • protections
  • refuges
  • retreats
  • safeguards
  • safety
  • security
  • shelters
  • shields
  • sureness
  • unlikelihood
  • wards

Meanings of dangers

  • noun
    1. Exposure to likely harm; peril.
    2. An instance or cause of likely harm.
    3. Mischief.
    4. (mainly outside US) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
    5. Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
    6. Liability.
    7. Difficulty; sparingness.
    8. Coyness; disdainful behavior.
  • verb
    1. To claim liability.
    2. To imperil; to endanger.
    3. To run the risk.

Example Sentences

  • Dangers lurk in the unexplored depths of the forest, reminding hikers to stay cautious.
  • Parents often warn their children about the dangers of playing near busy streets.
  • The manual outlines the potential dangers associated with operating heavy machinery.
  • Ignoring the dangers of smoking can lead to serious health problems later in life.
  • Environmentalists advocate for awareness of the dangers of plastic pollution in our oceans and waterways.

On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to dangers, such as: asylums, booby traps, calm, care, carefulness, certainty, clouds.

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Related Words

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jeopards

  • adventures
  • chances
  • compromises
  • endangers
  • exposes
  • hazards
  • imperils
  • intimidates
  • jeopardizes
  • menaces
  • perils
  • risks
  • subjects
  • threatens
  • ventures
  • wagers

ventures

  • advance
  • adventure
  • adventures
  • assay
  • attempt
  • baby
  • beards
  • bet
  • bets
  • brave
  • braves
  • brazens
  • breasts
  • challenge
  • challenges
  • chance
  • chances
  • compromises
  • confronts
  • crapshoots
  • dare
  • dare say
  • dares
  • dark horses
  • deal
  • defies
  • defy
  • endanger
  • endangers
  • endeavor
  • enterprise
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  • essay
  • experiment
  • exploit
  • expose
  • exposes
  • faces
  • feat
  • feel
  • fliers
  • flutters
  • flyers
  • front
  • gamble
  • gambles
  • get down
  • go out on a limb
  • grope
  • have a fling at
  • hazard
  • hazards
  • header
  • imperil
  • imperils
  • intimidates
  • investment
  • jeopardize
  • jeopardizes
  • jeopards
  • jeopardy
  • lay open
  • liberties
  • long shots
  • make a stab at
  • make bold
  • menaces
  • operate
  • outbraves
  • peril
  • perils
  • pet project
  • play for
  • play the market
  • plays
  • presume
  • project
  • proposition
  • pursuit
  • put in jeopardy
  • put up
  • risk
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  • runs the risk of
  • setup
  • shot
  • spec
  • speculate
  • speculation
  • speculations
  • stab
  • stake
  • stakes
  • subjects
  • take a crack at
  • take a flyer
  • take a plunge
  • tempts
  • test
  • thing
  • threatens
  • throws
  • trial
  • try
  • try out
  • undertaking
  • volunteer
  • wager
  • wagers

dangerous

  • adverse
  • alarming
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • breakneck
  • chance
  • chancy
  • contagious
  • critical
  • damaging
  • dangersome
  • deadly
  • deathly
  • deleterious
  • delicate
  • destructive
  • detrimental
  • dicey
  • dire
  • distressing
  • dynamite
  • evil
  • exposed
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • fell
  • formidable
  • grave
  • grievous
  • hairy
  • haphazard
  • harmful
  • hazardous
  • heavy
  • hostile
  • hot
  • hurtful
  • ill
  • impending
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impregnable
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inimical
  • injurious
  • insecure
  • insidious
  • jeopardizing
  • jeopardous
  • killer
  • lethal
  • loaded
  • malignant
  • menacing
  • mischievous
  • mortal
  • murderous
  • nasty
  • no-go
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • ominous
  • on collision course
  • parlous
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • poisonous
  • portentous
  • precarious
  • prejudicial
  • pressing
  • queasy
  • random
  • risky
  • ruinous
  • serious
  • serpentine
  • shaky
  • sickening
  • sinister
  • speculative
  • terrible
  • thorny
  • threatening
  • ticklish
  • touch-and-go
  • touchy
  • treacherous
  • ugly
  • ultrahazardous
  • uncertain
  • unfriendly
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unpleasant
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unwholesome
  • urgent
  • venomous
  • venturesome
  • viperous
  • vulnerable
  • wicked

obstructions

  • adversities
  • arrests
  • balks
  • barriers
  • bars
  • bits
  • blockades
  • blockages
  • blocks
  • brakes
  • brick walls
  • burdens
  • catches
  • chains
  • checks
  • clogs
  • constraints
  • cramps
  • crimps
  • cumbers
  • curbs
  • dangers
  • delays
  • deterrents
  • difficulties
  • disadvantages
  • drags
  • drawbacks
  • embargoes
  • embarrassments
  • encumbrances
  • fetters
  • handicaps
  • hardships
  • hazards
  • hindrances
  • hitches
  • hobbles
  • holdbacks
  • holdups
  • hurdles
  • impediments
  • inhibitions
  • interferences
  • lets
  • loads
  • manacles
  • obstacles
  • perils
  • reefs
  • reins
  • restraints
  • rubs
  • shackles
  • snags
  • stalls
  • stone walls
  • stoppages
  • stops
  • stumbling blocks
  • trammels

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