hazardous

[Eng. hazard; -ous.] 1. Full of hazard, danger, or risk; dangerous, perilous, risky. "Such communication would indeed be hazardous , and would require the utmost adroitne ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. vi. *2. Fond of hazard, danger, or risk; dangerous, perilous, risky. "Lycurgus was in his nature hazardous." - Sidney: Arcadia , bk. iii. hazardous-insurance, s. Comm.: An insurance effected at a high premium on buildings or goods which are more than ordinarily exposed or liable to risk of fire, as theaters, . hăz-ard-oŭs-lỹ, adv. [Eng. hazardous; -ly.] In a hazardous, risky, or perilous manner.