Crossword-Solution: PERILOUS 8 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Perilous a. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous;
hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.
Perilous a. Daring; reckless; dangerous.

We have 22 clues for the answer “PERILOUS”

Clue Answers
Hazardous or full of danger 1 answer
Fraught with danger 5 answers
life threatening 7 answers
rickety 37 answers
Potential 59 answers
Despond-ent 69 answers
Fearful 72 answers
Hazardous 72 answers
moot 73 answers
Scary 74 answers
Dire 76 answers
forlorn 76 answers
Risky 77 answers
sensitive 77 answers
doomed 78 answers
Precarious 79 answers
Unpredictable 79 answers
Spiteful 81 answers
indecisive 82 answers
Terrible 84 answers
ambiguous 84 answers
Vague 95 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PERILOUS (5)

Leader of those Armies bright, Which but th’ Omnipotent none could have foyld, If once they hear that voyce, their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft In worst extreams, and on the perilous edge Of battel when it rag’d, in all assaults Their surest signal, they will soon resume New courage and revive, though now they lye Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, As we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d, No wonder, fall’n such a pernicious highth.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: “O wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety, so much more perilous.” The Shepherd and the Sea A SHEPHERD, keeping watch over his sheep near the shore, saw the Sea very calm and smooth, and longed to make a voyage with a view to commerce.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
She knew that Chauvelin would willingly have braved perilous encounters for the sake of the cause he had at heart, but what he did fear was that this impudent Englishman would, by knocking him down, double his own chances of escape; his underlings might not succeed so well in capturing the Scarlet Pimpernel, when not directed by the cunning hand and the shrewd brain, which had deadly hate for an incentive.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
When we reached the opening at the top Tars Tarkas drew to one side that I might pass out and investigate, as, owing to my lesser weight and greater agility, I was better fitted for the perilous threading of this dizzy, hanging pathway.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
They had no means of advising their relatives and friends in Greece that they had survived the perilous journey.
The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008

Quotes with PERILOUS (3)

It happens like this. "One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this person carries within them an angel--one sent to you for some higher purpose; to teach you an important lesson or to keep you safe during a perilous time. What you must do is trust in them--even if they come hand in hand with pain or suffering--the reason for their presence will becom…
Lang Leav Love & Misadventure
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care
Jostein Gaarder Sophie's World
A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not be too old To stare at everything; As I stared once at a nursery door Or a tall tree and a swing. Wherein God’s ponderous mercy hangs On all my sins and me, Because He does not take away The terror from the tree And stones still shine along the road That are and cannot be. Men grow too old for love, my love, Men grow too old for wine, But I shall not grow too old to see Unear…
G. K. Chesterton The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton
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Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).