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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hazardous \Haz"ard*ous\ (-[u^]s), adjective [Cf. F. hasardeux.] Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.
To enterprise so hazardous and high! --Milton.
Syn: Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome; precarious; uncertain. -- {Haz"ard*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Haz"ard*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hazardous
adjective: involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a venturesome journey in wintertime"; "a venturous enterprise" [syn: {risky}, {venturesome}, {venturous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "hazardous": adventurous, aleatory, chancy, dangerous, desultory, dicey, dickey, fraught with danger, full of risk, hairy, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, jeopardous, parlous, perilous, precarious, provisional, questionable, riskful, risky, shaky, shifting, shifty, slippery, speculative, temporary, tentative, ticklish, treacherous, tricky, uncertain, undependable, unfaithworthy, unhealthy, unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, venturesome, venturous, wicked, wildcat
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