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Dangerous vs. Adventurous — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dangerous and Adventurous

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Dangerous

Able or likely to cause harm or injury
Insecticides which are dangerous to the environment
A dangerous animal

Adventurous

Willing to take risks or to try out new methods, ideas, or experiences
An adventurous traveller

Dangerous

Involving or filled with danger; perilous.

Adventurous

Inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises
"routes first sailed ... by another generation of tough, adventurous seafarers, the clipper men" (Tim Zimmermann).

Dangerous

Being able or likely to do harm.

Adventurous

Requiring or characterized by boldness or daring; hazardous; risky
Adventurous travels.
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Dangerous

Full of danger.
Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.

Adventurous

Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.

Dangerous

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

Adventurous

Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.
Take an adventurous viewpoint

Dangerous

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

Adventurous

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; - applied to persons.
Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.
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Dangerous

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;The ways are dangerous.
It is dangerous to assert a negative.

Adventurous

Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; - applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

Dangerous

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you dangerousTo less than gods.

Adventurous

Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises;
Adventurous pioneers
The risks and gains of an adventuresome economy

Dangerous

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

Dangerous

Hard to suit; difficult to please.
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small;My lord to me is hard and dangerous.

Dangerous

Reserved; not affable.

Dangerous

Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm;
A dangerous criminal
A dangerous bridge
Unemployment reached dangerous proportions

Dangerous

Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
A dangerous operation
A grave situation
A grave illness
Grievous bodily harm
A serious wound
A serious turn of events
A severe case of pneumonia
A life-threatening disease

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