Adjective
- 1. deadly, deathly, mortal, fatal (vs. nonfatal)
- usage: causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
- 2. deadly, lethal, fatal (vs. nonfatal)
- usage: of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
- 3. deadly, venomous, virulent, toxic (vs. nontoxic)
- usage: extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"
- 4. deadly, mortal(prenominal), unpardonable (vs. pardonable)
- usage: involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins"
- 5. baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent, noxious (vs. innocuous)
- usage: exceedingly harmful
- 6. deadly, virulent (vs. avirulent)
- usage: (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
Adverb
- 1. deadly, lifelessly
- usage: as if dead
- 2. madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly
- usage: (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"
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