Dangerous
Dangerous adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.
Earnest and dangerous are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Earnest" instead an adjective "Dangerous".
Nearby Words: danger, dangerously
Earnest
Earnest adjective - Not joking or playful in mood or manner.
Dangerous and earnest are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dangerous" instead an adjective "Earnest".
Nearby Words: earnestness, earnestly
Both words in one sentence
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Poor chap is too earnest and good-natured to realize that his friend with the eyepatch is a dangerous revolutionary and possibly a Nazi.
Source: Series / A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Sadly, he proved that just because he wasn't a Large Ham like Gaddafi, who had fallen around the time the revolt in Syria began in earnest, didn't mean he wasn't as (and, as history has shown, more) dangerous than the Libyan dictator.
Source: Useful Notes / The Arab Spring
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