Deadly
['dedlɪ] or ['dɛdli]
Definition
(adj.) (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect .
(adj.) causing or capable of causing death; 'a fatal accident'; 'a deadly enemy'; 'mortal combat'; 'a mortal illness' .
(adj.) of an instrument of certain death; 'deadly poisons'; 'lethal weapon'; 'a lethal injection' .
(adj.) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; 'the seven deadly sins' .
(adj.) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; 'venomous snakes'; 'a virulent insect bite' .
(adv.) as if dead.
Edited by Adrian--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.
(a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
(a.) Subject to death; mortal.
(adv.) In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.
(adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
(adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively.
(adv.) Extremely.
Typed by Dewey
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Mortal, fatal, destructive, deleterious, noxious, murderous.[2]. Implacable, rancorous, sanguinary.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mortal, fatal, malignant, baleful, pernicious, noxious, venomous, destructive,baneful, implacable
ANT:Vital, life-giving, healthful, wholesome, nutritious
Edited by Josie
Examples
- At these latter words the girl shivered again, and for a moment paused in her rowing, seeming to turn deadly faint. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Gudrun sat, sick at heart, frightened of the great, level surface of the water, so heavy and deadly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The distance was nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This is indeed, he continued, as he looked at the flimsy texture and slender fingers, a slight and frail gage for a purpose so deadly! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Through the heart of the town a deadly sewer ebbed and flowed, in the place of a fine fresh river. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She started up in the bed, and turned deadly pale. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If energy remains, it will be rather a dangerous energy--deadly when confronted with injustice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He became deadly pale, and a dangerous flame darkened his eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And a most deadly blow it will be to Harriet, said Mrs. Plymdale. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Osborne dropped it with the bitterest, deadliest pang of balked affection and revenge. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If you find you cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest enemy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Vivienne