Dangerous and Mad

Dangerous

Dangerous adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.

Mad and dangerous are semantically related in behaviour topic. In some cases you can use "Mad" instead an adjective "Dangerous".

Nearby Words: danger, dangerously

Mad

Mad adjective - Feeling or showing anger.

Dangerous and mad are semantically related in behaviour topic. Sometimes you can use "Dangerous" instead an adjective "Mad".

Nearby Words: madness, madly

Both words in one sentence

  • Strapped to an Operating Table: Sure, it's OK to tie down mad and dangerous people, but then, it depends what you do to them when strapped.
  • Film / Curse of the Golden Flower Whether or not the empress is actually somebody to be feared in the end, her husband and the crown prince are perfectly willing to call her mad and dangerous, for rather personal reasons.
  • An old Bela Lugosi movie, The Raven (1935), had Lugosi as a mad surgeon who was approached by a dangerous drifter.
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