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Definitions for Hazard

[1] an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
[2] something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: the many hazards of the big city.
[3] the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty: There is an element of hazard in the execution of the most painstaking plans.
[4] Golf . a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle.
[5] the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die.
[6] a game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps.
[7] Court Tennis . any of the winning openings.
[8] (in English billiards) a stroke by which the player pockets the object ball (winning hazard) or his or her own ball after contact with another ball (losing hazard) .
[9] to offer (a statement, conjecture, etc.) with the possibility of facing criticism, disapproval, failure, or the like; venture: He hazarded a guess, with trepidation, as to her motives in writing the article.
[10] to put to the risk of being lost; expose to risk: In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings.
[11] to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.): Thieves hazard arrest.
[12] to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue): to hazard a dangerous encounter.
[13] at hazard , at risk; at stake; subject to chance: His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures.
[14] exposure or vulnerability to injury, loss, evil, etc
[15] at hazard at risk; in danger
[16] a thing likely to cause injury, etc
[17] golf an obstacle such as a bunker, a road, rough, water, etc
[18] chance; accident (esp in the phrase by hazard )
[19] a gambling game played with two dice
[20] real tennis the receiver's side of the court one of the winning openings
[21] billiards a scoring stroke made either when a ball other than the striker's is pocketed (winning hazard ) or the striker's cue ball itself (losing hazard )
[22] to chance or risk
[23] to venture (an opinion, guess, etc)
[24] to expose to danger

Words related to Hazard

peril, risk, threat, mishap, accident, possibility, endangerment, jeopardy, dynamite, misfortune, fling, coincidence, fluke, adventure, venture, go, wager, guess, jeopardize, presume

Words nearby Hazard

haywire, haywood, hayworth, hazan, hazara, hazard, hazard light, hazard lights, hazard warning device, hazardous, hazardous waste

Origin of Hazard

1250–1300; Middle English hasard < Old French, perhaps < Arabic al-zahr the die

Other words from Hazard

haz·ard·a·ble , adjective
haz·ard·er , noun
haz·ard·less , adjective
pre·haz·ard , adjective
un·haz·ard·ed , adjective
un·haz·ard·ing , adjective
well-haz·ard·ed , adjective

Word origin for Hazard

C13: from Old French hasard, from Arabic az-zahr the die

Synonyms for Hazard

peril, risk, threat, dynamite, endangerment, jeopardy, double trouble, hot potato, imperilment, risky business, thin ice