danger to others
Risk to people
A danger to others describes someone whose behavior, mental state, or condition poses a risk of harm to people around them.
The phrase appears frequently in legal and psychiatric contexts, where being judged a danger to others can justify involuntary commitment or detention: The court found him to be a danger to others and ordered hospitalization.
More loosely, it describes anyone whose presence creates risk: She's a danger to others on the road.
- threatIndication of potential harm
- menaceSource of potential harm
- public safetyCollective welfare from threats
- violenceHarmful physical force
- harmInjury or damage
domestic violence · aggression · risk · flight risk · assault · attack · hostile · loose cannon · weapon · warning · volatile · ticking time bomb · unstable · predator · reckless · road rage · intimidation · hazard
danger to othersharmless
Causing no injury
safe · non-threatening · benign · innocuous · nonthreatening
danger to othersprotector
One who safeguards others
guardian · caretaker · helper · pillar of the community · peacemaker
danger, dangerous, dangerously, endanger, endangered, endangering, endangerment, other, others