| dangerous | | |
| adj. | 1. dangerous, unsafe | involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm.; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" |
| ~ breakneck | moving at very high speed.; "a breakneck pace" |
| ~ chanceful, chancy, dicey, dodgy | of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk.; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog" |
| ~ desperate | (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair.; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men" |
| ~ hazardous, risky, wild | involving risk or danger.; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme" |
| ~ insidious | intended to entrap. |
| ~ mordacious | biting or given to biting.; "they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount" |
| ~ on the hook | caught in a difficult or dangerous situation.; "there I was back on the hook" |
| ~ parlous, perilous, touch-and-go, precarious | fraught with danger.; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery" |
| ~ self-destructive, suicidal | dangerous to yourself or your interests.; "suicidal impulses"; "a suicidal corporate takeover strategy"; "a kamikaze pilot" |
| ~ treacherous, unreliable | dangerously unstable and unpredictable.; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle" |
| ~ unsafe, insecure | lacking in security or safety.; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future" |
| ~ vulnerable | susceptible to attack.; "a vulnerable bridge" |
| adj. | 2. dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe | causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm.; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" |
| ~ critical | being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency.; "a critical shortage of food"; "a critical illness"; "an illness at the critical stage" |
| delicate | | |
| adj. | 1. delicate | exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury.; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly" |
| ~ dainty, exquisite | delicately beautiful.; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo" |
| ~ gossamer, ethereal | characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy.; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing" |
| ~ fragile | vulnerably delicate.; "she has the fragile beauty of youth" |
| ~ light-handed | having a metaphorically delicate touch.; "the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive" |
| ~ overdelicate | extremely delicate.; "an overdelicate digestive system" |
| ~ pastel | lacking in body or vigor.; "faded pastel charms of the naive music" |
| ~ tender | (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition.; "tender green shoots" |
| ~ breakable | capable of being broken or damaged.; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully" |
| ~ frail | physically weak.; "an invalid's frail body" |
| ~ weak | wanting in physical strength.; "a weak pillar" |
| adj. | 2. delicate | marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique.; "a surgeon's delicate touch" |
| ~ skilled | having or showing or requiring special skill.; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade" |
| adj. | 3. delicate, fragile, frail | easily broken or damaged or destroyed.; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft" |
| ~ breakable | capable of being broken or damaged.; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully" |
| adj. | 4. delicate, soft | easily hurt.; "soft hands"; "a baby's delicate skin" |
| ~ untoughened, tender | physically untoughened.; "tender feet" |
| adj. | 5. delicate, finespun | developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety.; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense" |
| ~ refined | (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel.; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste" |
| adj. | 6. delicate, ticklish, touchy | difficult to handle; requiring great tact.; "delicate negotiations with the big powers"; "hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 7. delicate | of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely.; "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments" |
| ~ sensitive | responsive to physical stimuli.; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light" |
| fragile | | |
| adj. | 1. fragile | vulnerably delicate.; "she has the fragile beauty of youth" |
| ~ delicate | exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury.; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly" |
| adj. | 2. flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin | lacking substance or significance.; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; "a fragile claim to fame" |
| ~ unimportant, insignificant | devoid of importance, meaning, or force. |
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