a. | 1. | Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; | |||
2. | Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; | ||||
3. | Subject to death; mortal.
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adv. | 1. | In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death; deathly. | |||
2. | In a manner to occasion death; mortally. | ||||
3. | In an implacable manner; destructively. | ||||
4. | Extremely. |
Adj. | 1. | deadly - causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" |
2. | deadly - of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection" Synonyms: lethal | |
3. | deadly - extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" | |
4. | deadly - involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" Synonyms: mortal | |
5. | deadly - exceedingly harmful | |
6. | deadly - (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect | |
Adv. | 1. | deadly - as if dead Synonyms: lifelessly |
2. | deadly - as if produced by death; "deadly pale"; "a deadly paralytic stroke" | |
3. | deadly - (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" |