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| 1. | [ adjective ] causing or capable of causing death | |
| Synonyms: | mortal deathly | |
| Examples: | "a fatal accident" "a deadly enemy" "mortal combat" "a mortal illness" |
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| Related terms: | fatal | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] of an instrument of certain death | |
| Synonyms: | lethal | |
| Examples: | "deadly poisons" "lethal weapon" "a lethal injection" |
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| Related terms: | fatal | |
| 3. | [ adverb ] as if produced by death | |
| Examples: | "deadly pale" "a deadly paralytic stroke" |
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| 4. | [ adjective ] (theology) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death | |
| Synonyms: | mortal | |
| Examples: | "the seven deadly sins" |
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| Related terms: | theology unpardonable | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] exceedingly harmful | |
| Synonyms: | pernicious pestilent baneful | |
| Related terms: | noxious | |
| 6. | [ adverb ] (used as intensives) extremely | |
| Synonyms: | insanely deucedly devilishly madly | |
| Examples: | "she was madly in love" "deadly dull" "deadly earnest" "deucedly clever" "insanely jealous" |
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| Related terms: | intensifier | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | |
| Synonyms: | virulent venomous | |
| Examples: | "venomous snakes" "a virulent insect bite" |
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| Related terms: | toxic | |
| 8. | [ adverb ] as if dead | |
| Synonyms: | lifelessly | |
| Related terms: | dead lifeless dead lifeless | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect | |
| Related terms: | virulent | |
| Similar spelling: |
detail deathly |
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