Need another word that means the same as “perilous”? Find 16 synonyms and 30 related words for “perilous” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Perilous” are: parlous, precarious, touch-and-go, dangerous, fraught with danger, hazardous, risky, unsafe, treacherous, life-threatening, high-risk, insecure, unsound, vulnerable, exposed, defenceless
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “perilous” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| dangerous | Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm. A dangerous animal. |
| defenceless | Without defence or protection; totally vulnerable. Attacks on defenceless civilians. |
| exposed | With no protection or shield. The venue featured beautiful hardwood floors and exposed brick walls. |
| fraught with danger | Marked by distress. |
| hazardous | Involving risk or danger. It is hazardous to personal safety. |
| high-risk | Not financially safe or secure. |
| insecure | (of a person) uncertain or anxious about oneself; not confident. An insecure computer system. |
| life-threatening | Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. |
| parlous | Full of danger or uncertainty; precarious. The General s position was parlous. |
| precarious | Not secure; beset with difficulties. The precarious life of an undersea diver. |
| risky | Involving risk or danger. Extremely risky going out in the tide and fog. |
| touch-and-go | Functioning correctly and ready for action. |
| treacherous | Tending to betray especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans. The fiercest and most treacherous of foes. |
| unsafe | Not safe; dangerous. Drinking water in some areas may be unsafe. |
| unsound | Physically unsound or diseased. Activities deemed to be environmentally unsound. |
| vulnerable | (of a partnership) liable to higher penalties, either by convention or through having won one game towards a rubber. Vulnerable to bribery. |
| crisis | A crucial stage or turning point in the course of something. They went bankrupt during the economic crisis. |
| danger | A dangerous place. He feared the dangers of traveling by air. |
| dangerous | Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. A dangerous operation. |
| deadly | Extremely. Deadly dull. |
| dicey | Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk- New Yorker. Democracy is a dicey business. |
| hazardous | Risky; dangerous. We work in hazardous conditions. |
| incinerate | Cause to undergo combustion. Waste packaging is to be incinerated rather than buried in landfills. |
| insecure | Not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way. An insecure footbridge. |
| insidious | Beguiling but harmful. Insidious pleasures. |
| irradiate | Expose (someone or something) to radiation. Irradiate food. |
| neurotoxin | A poison which acts on the nervous system. |
| parlous | Full of danger or uncertainty; precarious. She is parlous handsome. |
| peril | The dangers or difficulties that arise from a particular situation or activity. The movement is in peril of dying. |
| perilously | In a dangerous manner. Houses perched perilously on craggy outposts. |
| pitfall | An unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty. The pitfalls of buying goods at public auctions. |
| precarious | Not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse. A precarious ladder. |
| radioactivity | The spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay. An escape of radioactivity. |
| radium | The chemical element of atomic number 88, a rare radioactive metal of the alkaline earth series. It was formerly used as a source of radiation for radiotherapy. |
| risk | Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome. All risks insurance for professional photographers. |
| risky | Full of the possibility of danger, failure, or loss. It was much too risky to try to disarm him. |
| shaky | Not secure; beset with difficulties. After a shaky start the Scottish team made superb efforts. |
| shivering | A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever. Sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier. |
| spineless | Lacking thorns. Spineless forms of prickly pear have been selected. |
| stunt | Perform a stunt or stunts. Some weeds produce chemicals that stunt the plant s growth. |
| threatened | Likely in the near future to become endangered. The spotted owl is a threatened species not yet an endangered one. |
| toxicity | The degree to which something is poisonous. That was how I protected my partner from my family s toxicity. |
| unsafe | Not safe from attack. Drinking water in some areas may be unsafe. |
| volatility | Liability to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse. A week of historic stock market volatility. |
| vulnerable | Susceptible to attack. A vulnerable bridge. |
| weakly | Sickly; not robust. If the lambs were weakly we had to feed them by hand. |
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