hazardous

1. 1.

   involving risk or danger

   “skydiving is a hazardous sport”

   “extremely risky going out in the tide and fog”

   “a wild financial scheme”

   Synonymsriskywild

   Similardangerous

Questions about hazardous

What does hazardous mean?

hazardous means "involving risk or danger".

How many syllables are in hazardous?

hazardous has 3 syllables: haz-ar-dous. The stress falls on "haz". In IPA it is /ˈhæzɚdəs/.

What is another word for hazardous?

Close synonyms include risky, wild. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hazardous a common word?

hazardous is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.