You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
perilously, hazardously, dangerously
(adverb) in a dangerous manner; “he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dangerously (comparative more dangerously, superlative most dangerously)
In a dangerous manner.
Antonym: safely
Source: Wiktionary
Dan"ger*ous, a. Etym: [OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See Danger.]
1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay.
2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. Milton.
3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett.
4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.] My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. Chaucer.
5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] "Of his speech dangerous." Chaucer.
– Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv.
– Dan"ger*ous*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.