perilous

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Dangerous, full of peril.
    — Three miles or more to our starboard is a low dim line. It is the Eastern shore of Central Africa. We are running to the southward, before the North East Monsoon, between the mainland and the reef that for hundreds of miles fringes this perilous coast.

词形变化

more perilous comparative most perilous superlative perelles alternative,obsolete perillous alternative,archaic perlous alternative,obsolete per'lous alternative,poetic

词源

From Middle English perilous, from Old French perilleus, equivalent to peril + -ous, from the noun peril, or from Latin perīculōsus. Doublet of periculous.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary