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单词 perilous
释义
perilous
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈper.əl.əs/us
/ˈper.əl.əs/
extremelydangerous:
非常危险的
Thecountryroadsarequiteperilous.这些乡间道路很危险。
Synonyms
dangerous
hazardous
high-risk
risky
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
able to harm you
  • dangerousIt's dangerous to walk alone in the woods at night.
  • unsafeDon't play in the street - it's unsafe.
  • hazardousHeavy rain is causing hazardous driving conditions.
  • perilousA perilous journey through the mountains was their only escape route.
  • treacherousIce had made the roads treacherous.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dangers and threats
  • balefully
  • baneful
  • black spot
  • brinkmanship
  • hang oversomething
  • hazard
  • hazardous
  • hazmat
  • hazmat suit
  • on/under pain of deathidiom
  • or elseidiom
  • parlous
  • peril
  • perilously
  • precipice
  • someone'sbark isworsethanhis/herbiteidiom
  • tombstoning
  • triple threat
  • ultra-hazardous
  • venturesome
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Related word

perilously
(Definition ofperilousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

perilous| American Dictionary

perilous
adjective
fml
us
/ˈper·ə·ləs/
dangerous
(Definition ofperilousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofperilous

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All the figures, with thick lips and wide, happy-go-lucky grins (wholly inappropriate to theperilousmission), are mordant caricatures of the old stereotype.
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Moral achievement,perilousdanger, and individual action, rather than the specific details of an expedition's instructions or successes, were thrust to centre stage.
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It was an intellectually courageous but oftenperilousbalancing act.
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With the outbreak of war, crossing the road became newlyperilous.
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Moving cultures : theperilousproblems of cultural dichotomies in a globalizing society.
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He rows out throughperilousand stormy seas.
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Even at this early stage in the century theperilousbear encounter had become a central part of the imaginative stock-in-trade.
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This phenomenon isperilous, because the discrete solutions will 'look' correct and even display nice convergence as the meshes are refined.
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Such conditions became especiallyperilousfor older people when declines in health and support networks were mirrored in changes in the immediate locality.
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They had done the last actions necessar y to create hazards and were unavailable to do further actions to reverse theperilousconditions they created.
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Of course, touting highland minorities as fierce warriors was a potentiallyperilousmarketing strategy.
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Figures have been thrown out so capriciously in the literature that it isperilousto base one's computation on them.
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On the other hand, performance-wise the situation is much less healthy, in fact it'sperilous.
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Cutting a text can also be aperilousbusiness.
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But the consistent focus of the magazine suggests that theperilousstate of men is more than a rhetorical ploy.
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