Hazardous
Hazardous adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.
Usage example: a hazardous journey across the arctic ice
Threatening is a synonym for hazardous. In some cases you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Hazardous".
Threatening
Threatening adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.
Usage example: threatening rocks lined that narrow stretch of the river through which we would be rafting
Hazardous is a synonym for threatening. You can use "Hazardous" instead the word "Threatening" as an adjective or a noun.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- close and hazardous
- close and threatening
- critical and hazardous
- critical and threatening
- nasty and hazardous
- nasty and threatening
- grave and hazardous
- grave and threatening
- serious and hazardous
- serious and threatening
- perilous and hazardous
- perilous and threatening
- dangerous and hazardous
- dangerous and threatening
Both words in one sentence
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Threatening Tenchi in front of Ryoko or Ayeka can also be hazardous to one's health.
Source: Anime / Tenchi Muyo! -
Once Kyrie Awakens, threatening to harm Morte - which is pretty much the only thing that gets a rise out of him, as he's so gentle otherwise - becomes extremely hazardous to your health.
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Blackmail: Penguin convinces Max to help him with his plans by threatening to reveal his company produces toxic waste, he owns half the hazardous buildings in Gotham, and murdered his old business partner.Penguin: Remember Max, you flush it, I flaunt it!
Source: Film / Batman Returns
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