Deadly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing or tending to cause death: deadly weapons; a deadly spill of radioactive waste products. See Synonyms at fatal.
  • adj. Suggestive of death: a deadly pallor.
  • adj. Aiming or wanting to kill; implacable: deadly enemies.
  • adj. Destructive in effect: gave the film a deadly review.
  • adj. Tending to take away vitality, effectiveness, or force: the deadly habit of procrastination.
  • adj. Absolute; utter: deadly concentration.
  • adj. Extreme or terrible: worked under deadly strain.
  • adj. Extremely accurate; unerring: She is a deadly shot with the bow.
  • adj. Dull, tedious, and boring: a deadly prose style.
  • ad. So as to suggest death.
  • ad. To an extreme: deadly serious.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Subject to death; mortal.
  • adj. Causing death; lethal.
  • adj. Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
  • adj. Very boring.
  • adj. Excellent, awesome, cool.
  • ad. Fatally, mortally.
  • ad. In a way which suggests death.
  • ad. Extremely.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death.
  • adj. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious.
  • adj. Subject to death; mortal.
  • ad. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death; deathly.
  • ad. In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
  • ad. In an implacable manner; destructively.
  • ad. Extremely.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Mortal; liable to death; being in danger of death.
  • Occasioning or capable of causing death, physical or spiritual; mortal; fatal; destructive: as, a deadly blow or wound.
  • Mortal; implacable; aiming or tending to kill or destroy: as, a deadly enemy; deadly malice; a deadly feud.
  • Adapted for producing death or great bodily injury: as, a deadly weapon; a deadly drug.
  • Dead.
  • Very great; excessive.
  • Mortally.
  • Implacably; destructively.
  • In a manner resembling death; deathly: as, deadly pale or wan.
  • Extremely; excessively.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of an instrument of certain death
  • ad. (used as intensives) extremely
  • adj. involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
  • ad. as if dead
  • adj. extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
  • adj. exceedingly harmful
  • adj. (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
  • adj. causing or capable of causing death
    • Equivalent
    fatal    unpardonable    toxic    noxious    virulent   
    Cross Reference
    deathlike    deadly nightshade    deadly sins    deadly carrot   
    Variant
    deadliest    deadlier   
    Form
    deadly sin   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mortal    fatal    destructive    implacable    flagitious    deathly    mortally    destructively    extremely   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    medley   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    terrible    sharp    lethal    fiery    vicious   
     
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