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Antonyms for dangerously

Grammar : Adv
Spell : deyn-jer-uh s, deynj-ruh s
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdeɪn dʒər əs, ˈdeɪndʒ rəs

Definition of dangerously

Origin :
  • early 13c., "difficult, arrogant, severe" (the opposite of affable), from Anglo-French dangerous, Old French dangeros (12c., Modern French dangereux), from danger (see danger).
  • In Chaucer, it means "hard to please, reluctant to give;" sense of "full of danger, risky" is from late 15c. Other words used in this sense included dangersome (1560s), dangerful (1540s). Related: Dangerously.
  • adv precariously
Example sentences :
  • Percy Roden was still in a dangerously exalted frame of mind.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • I say, Knowles, am I such a dangerously fascinating character?
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • "You see what awaits you if you persist in this," he said, in a dangerously quiet voice.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • "Mr. Nichols has been shot, Mr. McGuire—he's dangerously hurt," she appealed.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • Yet surely such a nature as his should have been dangerously open to disaster.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Have you heard that Oliphant has been dangerously ill, at N. York?
  • Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey
  • The man-smell was strong upon them, and comparatively, but not dangerously, fresh.
  • Extract from : « The House in the Water » by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • This order of December 26, 1817, was stated in dangerously broad terms.
  • Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
  • Had he been dangerously wounded, he could not possibly have been moved to England.
  • Extract from : « Good Old Anna » by Marie Belloc Lowndes
  • Little Agnes Frost—I have just seen the doctor—is most dangerously ill.
  • Extract from : « A Modern Tomboy » by L. T. Meade

Synonyms for dangerously

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