jeopardous

[ jep-er-duhs ]

adjective

1. perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jeopardous¹

1425–75; late Middle English j ( e ) upartous, equivalent to j ( e ) upart ( i ) jeopardy + -ous -ous

Example Sentences

The curriculum offered to girls could also be limited, with some contemporaries considering Latin and Greek to be “very noisome and jeopardous” to health, since it might “inflame their stomachs” towards vice.

From Time

Times have indeed been consistently jeopardous, and the eloquent voice of Joe Alsop, amplified by syndication, has dedicated itself to the cause of scaring tranquil humanity into its wits.

From Time Magazine Archive

But all real estate bonds are by no means jeopardous investments.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I dogged her on o'er jeopardous Steeps down which she sped with leopardess Limbs into miasmic deeps.

From Project Gutenberg

But here it challenged man to essay a fall; for where it burst its way over rocky slopes were channels jeopardous and hardly navigable, sequences of foaming rapids, races of wild water swirling round opposing boulders, and careering indignant of restraint between long walls of beetling rock.

From Project Gutenberg