hazard

The word “hazard” has 2 syllables: haz-ard

It's pronounced as /ˈhæzərd/

What is synonym and antonym for hazard?

In the thesaurus, “hazard” has 54 synonyms and 22 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for hazard along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for hazard

noun
1. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
3. (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
4. A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
5. The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
6. A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
7. Chance.
8. Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
9. The side of the court into which the ball is served.
10. A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
verb
1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
2. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

Smoking is a serious health hazard.
Wet floors can pose a hazard to customers.
The workers wore helmets to protect themselves from any hazard on the construction site.
Driving at high speeds is a hazard on icy roads.
Chemical spills are a major environmental hazard.

On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to hazard, such as: accident, adventure, asylum, beard, booby trap, brave, brazen.

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