DANGEROUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dangerously mean? 

• DANGEROUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb DANGEROUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a dangerous manner

  Familiarity information: DANGEROUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DANGEROUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a dangerous manner

Synonyms:

dangerously; hazardously; perilously

Context example:

he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge

Pertainym:

dangerous (involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm)

 Context examples 

This avoids a common drawback of diabetes treatments which can overcompensate on insulin exposure and leave the patient with harmful or dangerously low blood sugar (hypoglycemia).

(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Lung and sleep disorders tend to decrease those levels further, and dangerously so.

(Researchers identify genetic variations linked to oxygen drops during sleep, National Institutes of Health)

A condition in which fluid and proteins leak out of tiny blood vessels and flow into surrounding tissues, resulting in dangerously low blood pressure.

(Capillary leak syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

If it doesn't, you have hypoglycemia, and your blood sugar can be dangerously low.

(Hypoglycemia, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

So he rode away, and when he reached his father, the latter was dangerously ill, and near his death.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Tom dangerously ill, Edmund gone to attend him, and the sadly small party remaining at Mansfield, were cares to shut out every other care, or almost every other.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Those ideas of his might work out dangerously with strangers.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“She is very dangerously ill,” she added.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

News from their father comforted the girls very much, for though dangerously ill, the presence of the best and tenderest of nurses had already done him good.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)