hazardous
Dangerous and likely to cause harm.
hazardous in a sentence
- Warning signs marked the hazardous cliff path where rocks often tumbled down.
- Driving was hazardous that morning, with black ice hiding on every bend of the lane.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to hazardous?
- Aharmless
- Bdangerous
- Csafe
- Dsecure
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B: dangerous. The other three mean the opposite of hazardous.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to hazardous?
- Arisky
- Bsafe
- Cdangerous
- Dperilous
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B: safe. The other three mean nearly the same as hazardous.
Words that mean something similar
dangerous, risky, perilous
Words that mean the opposite
safe, secure, harmless
More words about places & settings
- inhabit: To live in a place.
- interior: The inside part of something.
- isolate: To keep someone or something apart from others.
- jeopardy: A state of danger, when something could be harmed or lost.
- knoll: A small round hill.
- loom: To appear as a large, worrying shape, or to be about to happen.
- maroon: To leave someone stranded in a place they cannot escape from.
- nautical: To do with ships, sailors and the sea.
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Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test