dangerously

English

Etymology

dangerous +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

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Adverb

dangerously (comparative more dangerously, superlative most dangerously)

1. In a dangerous manner.

   Antonym: safely

   • 2013 January 11, Tom Shone, “Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste - but will it last?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Add in nominations for Django Unchained, The Master and Moonrise Kingdom, and the Academy Awards look dangerously close to being about rewarding the actual best films of the year. Don't tell anyone.

Derived terms

• live dangerously

Translations

in a dangerous manner

• Catalan: perillosament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 危險地／危险地 (zh) (wéixiǎn de)

• Finnish: vaarallisesti (fi)
• French: dangereusement (fr)
• Galician: perigosamente
• German: gefährlich (de)
• Hungarian: veszélyesen (hu)
• Japanese: 危うく (ja) (ayauku), 危険に (ja) (kiken ni)
• Norman: dangéreusement
• Portuguese: perigosamente (pt)
• Romanian: în mod periculos, cu pericol
• Russian: опа́сно (ru) (opásno)
• Spanish: peligrosamente (es)
• Swedish: farligt (sv)