perilous

perilous is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.
2. adjective. Daring; reckless; dangerous.
3. adjective. fraught with danger

   "dangerous waters"

   "a parlous journey on stormy seas"

   Synonyms: parlous, precarious

Synonyms

parlous, precarious

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in perilous:

uropsile

Common word forms

perilously, perilousness

Words from these letters

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