perilously

as inseriously

as indangerously
as indesperately

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Synonyms for perilously

adv dangerously, critically

Antonyms for perilously

little
casually
funnily
lightly
minor
trivially

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Word Origin & History

c.1300, from Old French perillos "perilous, dangerous" (Modern French périlleux) "dangerous, hazardous," from Latin periculosus "dangerous, hazardous," from periculum "a danger, attempt, risk" (see peril). Related: Perilously; perilousness.

Example Sentences for perilously

Does it strike you that this is perilously near to being gossip?

It was yet touch and go, however, and the breakers were perilously near.

He filled a glass of wine and waved it perilously near the Colonel's nose.

The invitation might be regarded as perilously near to "cheek."

Traverse was shocked to find how perilously his orders had been exceeded.

He began to see how perilously far he had gone in this business.

Who is there to replace that perilously piquant diseur Harry Fragson?

The enthusiast, when not lyrical, is perilously near to boring.

"I ordered this girl to be taken away," she said, perilously.

A wild circle brought them perilously near the cliff, but they missed it.

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desperately

seriously

Synonyms for perilously

dangerously