Usually means: Dangerously close to causing harm.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. perilously: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perilously: Merriam-Webster
  3. perilously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perilously: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perilously: Vocabulary.com
  6. perilously: Wordnik
  7. perilously: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. perilously: Wiktionary
  9. perilously: Dictionary.com
  10. perilously: Rhymezone
  11. perilously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. perilously: FreeDictionary.org
  13. perilously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. perilously: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perilously: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a perilous manner.

Similar:
dangerously, hazardously, riskily, precariously, jeopardously, plightly, dangerfully, treacherously, parlously, calamitously, more...

Opposite:
safely, securely, harmlessly, unthreateningly

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Similar:
dangerously, hazardously, riskily, precariously, jeopardously, plightly, dangerfully, treacherously, parlously, calamitously, more...

Opposite:
safely, securely, harmlessly, unthreateningly

Colors:
    crimson,     blood red,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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