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adj
Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: dangerous, dangersome, hazardous, jeopardous, wicked, parlous, periculous, perilous, precarious, risky, unsafe
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Appalling, dire, terrible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: England, also, dialectal, obsolete, rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Extremely, very.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
fraught with danger
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: perilous, precarious, touch-and-go
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English parles, parlous, perlous, [and other forms], a contraction of perilous (“dangerous; dreadful, terrible; morally corrupt, sinful, wicked; inauspicious, unlucky”) (and thus a doublet of perilous), from Old French perilleus, perillos, perillous, perilluse, perilleuse, perilleux (“very dangerous, perilous”) (modern French périlleux), from Latin perīculōsus (“dangerous, hazardous, perilous”), from perīculum (“danger, hazard, peril, risk”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through, carry forth, try”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives).
