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Princeton's WordNet

  1. perilously, hazardously, dangerouslyadverb

    in a dangerous manner

    "he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge"

Wiktionary

  1. dangerouslyadverb

    In a dangerous manner.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Dangerouslyadverb

    Hazardously; perillously; with danger.

    Etymology: from dangerous.

    But for your son, believe it, oh, believe it,
    Most dang’rously you have with him prevail’d,
    If not most mortal to him. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    A sort of naughty persons
    Have practis’d dangerously against your state,
    Dealing with witches and with conjurers. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

    It is just with God to permit those, which think they stand so surely, to fall most dangerously. Henry Hammond, on Fundamentals.

    Plutarch says Telesilla, a noble lady, being dangerously sick, was by the oracle advised to apply her mind to the muse and poetry. Henry Peacham, on Poetry.

    If it were so; which but to think were pride,
    My constant love would dangerously be tried. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. Dangerously

    Dangerously is a song produced and performed by American singer Charlie Puth from his debut studio album Nine Track Mind (2016). It was sent to Italian radio stations as the fourth and final single of the album on December 2, 2016.

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  1. dangerously

    Dangerously is an adverb that refers to something done or existing in a way that may cause harm, injury, or risk. It can imply threat, damage or negative consequences posed by an action, circumstance, or condition. It can also pertain to something threatening or potentially causing serious harm.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dangerously in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dangerously in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of dangerously in a Sentence

  1. Michael Tanchum:

    There has already been one collision between a Greek warship and a Turkish warship, in which the Turkish vessel took some damage, the danger of miscalculation or further accidents touching off an open clash that no one wants is now dangerously high.

  2. Alexandre Baradez:

    It comes right after China's disappointing PMI figures showing that manufacturing activity is getting dangerously close to contraction, China's central bank is now following the path of the Fed, the ECB and the BoJ. Central banks are really driving markets.

  3. Sylvia Plath:

    Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

  4. Marco Rubio:

    We simply cannot afford to elect as our next president one of the leading agents of this administration’s foreign policy – a leader from yesterday whose tenure as secretary of state was ineffective at best and dangerously negligent at worst.

  5. Director James Comey:

    ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy.

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