Definitions for perilous

perilous per·il·ous

Spelling: [per-uh-luh s]
IPA: /ˈpɛr ə ləs/

Perilous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 428 anagrams from letters in perilous (eiloprsu).

Definitions for perilous

adjective

  1. involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous:

Origin of perilous

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French perillous Latin perīculōsus. See peril, -ous

Examples for perilous

And now Persecuted holds up a mirror to the perilous situation facing increasingly disenfranchised Christians in modern America.

Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.

For his perilous and laborious work it was better, he judged, that he should not be married.

And these perilous contacts from all these strange hands he must endure.

During this service, the most perilous action occurred in which he was ever engaged.

They were in a perilous position, right beneath the guns of the fortress.

Unfortunately, this can result in sending a well-intentioned but perilous message.

But if Mare Nostrum ends, it could be a tragic day for migrants making the perilous crossing.

The Germans made that quite as perilous a venture as the advance had been.

It is a tricky and perilous path, but there are no realistic alternatives.

Word Value for perilous
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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