adjective
- Causing or capable of causing death.
- usage: "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
- Of an instrument of certain death.
- usage: "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
- synonyms: lethal
- Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom.
- usage: "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"
- Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death.
- usage: "the seven deadly sins"
- synonyms: mortal
- Exceedingly harmful.
- synonyms: baneful, pernicious, pestilent
- Of a disease. ( having a rapid course and violent effect)
adverb
- As if dead.
- synonyms: lifelessly
- Used as intensives. ( extremely)
- usage: "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"
- synonyms: madly, insanely, deucedly, devilishly
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