'deadly' definitions:
Definition of 'deadly'
From: WordNet
adverb
As if dead [syn: deadly, lifelessly]
adverb
(used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" [syn: madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly]
adjective
Causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn: deadly, deathly, mortal]
adjective
Of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection" [syn: deadly, lethal]
adjective
Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" [syn: deadly, venomous, virulent]
adjective
Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" [syn: deadly, mortal(a)]
adjective
adjective
(of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
Definition of 'deadly'
From: GCIDE
- deadly \dead"ly\, a.
- 1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. [1913 Webster]
- Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The image of a deadly man. --Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). [1913 Webster]
- Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'deadly'
From: GCIDE
- deadly \dead"ly\, adv.
- 1. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death; deathly. "Deadly pale." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. In a manner to occasion death; mortally. [1913 Webster]
- The groanings of a deadly wounded man. --Ezek. xxx. 24. [1913 Webster]
- 3. In an implacable manner; destructively. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Extremely. [Obs.] "Deadly weary." --Orrery. "So deadly cunning a man." --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deadly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'deadly'
- Dead,
- Deadness,
- Deads,
- To be dead,
- dead to,
- deading,
- A dead dog,
- Dead ahead,
- Dead angle,
- Dead block,
- Dead calm,
- Dead center,
- Dead color,
- Dead coloring,
- Dead door,
- Dead drunk,
- Dead flat,
- Dead freight,
- Dead ground,
- Dead hand,
- Dead head,
- Dead heat,
- Dead horse,
- Dead language,
- Dead letter,
- Dead lift,
- Dead matter,
- Dead nettle,
- Dead plate,
- Dead pledge,
- Dead point,
- Dead reckoning,
- Dead rise,
- Dead rising,
- Dead set,
- Dead shot,
- Dead smooth,
- Dead spindle,
- Dead stock,
- Dead wall,
- Dead water,
- Dead weight,
- Dead wind,
- Deadly nightshade,
- Deadly sins,
- baptism for the dead,
- brain dead,
- dead air,
- dead axle,
- dead beat,
- dead body,
- dead centre,
- dead drop,
- dead duck,
- dead end,
- dead giveaway,
- dead load,
- dead mail,
- dead march,
- dead metaphor,
- dead of night,
- dead on target,
- dead pan,
- dead person,
- dead ringer,
- dead room,
- dead sea,
- dead soul,
- dead stop,
- dead tired,
- dead to the world,
- dead-on,
- deadly amanita,
- deadly sin,
- drop dead,
- knock dead,
- living dead,
- office of the dead,
- resurrection of the dead,
- stop dead,
- Dead pulled wool,
- Dead-eye,
- Dead-hearted,
- Dead-heartedness,
- Dead-pay,
- Dead-reckoning,
- Dead-stroke,
- Stone-dead,
- To make a dead set,
- dead hand of the past,
- dead sea scrolls,
- dead-end,
- drop-dead,
- white dead nettle,
- Dead-Sea apple,
- Dead-stroke hammer,
- dead-air space,
- dead-end street,
- dead-man's float,
- dead-man's-fingers,
- dead-men's-fingers