About The Word Deadly
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Deadly
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What's The Definition Of Deadly?
[adv] (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"
[adv] as if produced by death; "deadly pale"; "a deadly paralytic stroke" [adv] as if dead [adj] (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect [adj] causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [adj] of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection" [adj] exceedingly harmful [adj] (theology) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" [adj] extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" Synonyms | Synonyms for Deadly: baneful | deathly | deucedly | devilishly | fatal | harmful | insanely | lethal | lifelessly | madly | mortal | mortal(a) | noxious | pernicious | pestilent | toxic | unpardonable | venomous | virulent Related Terms | Find terms related to Deadly: a la mort | abominably | accurate | agonizingly | ashen | awful | awfully | baldly | baleful | balefully | baneful | barbaric | barbarous | bitterly | blatantly | bloodthirsty | blue | boring | brashly | brutal | cadaverous | calamitous | cataclysmal | cataclysmic | catastrophic | catching | cold-blooded | communicable | confoundedly | consuming | consumptive | contagious | corpselike | corroding | corrosive | corrupting | corruptive | counterproductive | cruelly | damaging | damnably | dangerous | dead | deadened | death-bringing | deathful | deathlike | deathly | deathly pale | deleterious | demolishing | demolitionary | depredatory | desolating | destroying | destructive | detrimental | deucedly | devastating | disadvantageous | disastrous | disserviceable | distressing | distressingly | dolorously | doomful | dreadful | dreadfully | dreary | dull | eerie | egregiously | envenomed | exact | excessively | excruciating | excruciatingly | exorbitantly | extravagantly | fatal | fateful | fearful | feral | ferocious | flagrantly | fratricidal | frightful | frightfully | ghastly | ghostlike | ghostly | grievously | grisly | gruesome | haggard | harmful | heartless | hellishly | homicidal | horrible | horribly | howling | humdrum | hurtful | implacable | improperly | inexcusably | infectious | infective | infernally | inhuman | injurious | inordinately | internecine | intolerably | killing | lamentably | lethal | livid | lurid | macabre | malefic | malevolent | malign | malignant | mephitic | merciless | miasmal | miasmatic | miasmic | mischievous | miserably | mortal | mortuary | murderous | nakedly | nihilist | nihilistic | noisome | noxious | ominous | openly | painfully | pale | pallid | pernicious | pestiferous | pestilent | pestilential | piteously | pitiless | poisonous | precise | prejudicial | ravaging | rousing | ruining | ruinous | ruthless | sadly | savage | scatheful | self-destructive | shatteringly | shockingly | slaying | something awful | something fierce | sorely | staggeringly | subversionary | subversive | suicidal | tedious | terrible | terribly | terrific | thumping | tiresome | to the death | torturously | toxic | toxicant | toxiferous | true | unashamedly | unbearably | uncanny | unconscionably | unduly | unearthly | unerring | unfailing | unpardonably | vandalic | vandalish | vandalistic | venenate | veneniferous | venenous | venomous | vicious | virulent | wan | wasteful | wasting | wearisome | wearying | weird | whacking | white | withering | woefully See Also | Deadly In Webster's Dictionary \Dead"ly\, a.
1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive;
certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or
wound.
2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately
hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly.
--Shak.
3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.]
The image of a deadly man. --Wyclif (Rom.
i. 23).
{Deadly nightshade} (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna.
See under {Nightshade}.
\Dead"ly\, adv. 1. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. ``Deadly pale.'' --Shak. 2. In a manner to occasion death; mortally. The groanings of a deadly wounded man. --Ezek. xxx. 24. 3. In an implacable manner; destructively. 4. Extremely. [Obs.] ``Deadly weary.'' --Orrery. ``So deadly cunning a man.'' --Arbuthnot. |
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