danger synonyms

danger

n.

risk, peril, jeopardy, threat, hazard, insecurity, uncertainty, instability, exposure, venture, destabilizing factor, menace, precariousness, vulnerability, slipperiness, shakiness, treacherousness, endangerment, emergency, crisis, exigency, predicament, precipice, thin ice*.

Antonyms safety*, security*, certainty.

danger is the general term for liability to injury or evil, of whatever degree or likelihood of occurrence the danger of falling on icy walks; peril suggests great and imminent danger in peril of death; jeopardy emphasizes exposure to extreme danger liberty is in jeopardy under tyrants; hazard implies a foreseeable but uncontrollable possibility of danger, but stresses the element of chance the hazards of hunting big game; risk implies the voluntary taking of a dangerous chance

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