'Dangerously' definitions:
Definition of 'dangerously'
From: WordNet
adverb
In a dangerous manner; "he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge" [syn: perilously, hazardously, dangerously]
Definition of 'Dangerously'
From: GCIDE
- Dangerous \Dan"ger*ous\, a. [OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See Danger.]
- 1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. [1913 Webster]
- Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- It is dangerous to assert a negative. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. [1913 Webster]
- If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] --Forby. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] "Of his speech dangerous." --Chaucer. -- {Dan"ger*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Dan"ger*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]