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deadlyadjective likely to cause or capable of causing deaththe doctors were alarmed about the outbreak of the deadly new virus baleful, deathly, fatal, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous, pestilent, terminal, vital baneful, deleterious, destructive, harmful, injurious, noxious, pernicious, truculentinfectious, infective, pestilential, poisonous, sublethal, toxic, virulentdangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, ugly, unhealthy, unsoundbloody, internecine, sanguinary, sanguine healthful, healthy, nonfatal, nonlethal, wholesome beneficial, restorative, salubrious, salutaryalleviative, corrective, curative, remedial, tonicadvantageous, beneficial, usefulnonpoisonous, nontoxic, safe having no exceptions or restrictionsthe deadly tedium of waiting for the fog to lift absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming(chiefly British), bodacious(Southern & Midland), categorical(also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritableconstant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremittingextreme, unrestrictedconfirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterateextraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrific doubtful, dubious, equivocal, qualified, questionable, restricted, uncertain of, relating to, or suggestive of deatha deadly pallor spread across her face as the tragic news gradually sank in dead, deathly, mortal, mortuary cadaverousghostlike, ghostly, phantom, spectralinactive, inert, inoperative, lifeless, quiescent, stillmacabrebaleful, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, murderous, pestilent active, alive, animate, breathing, live, livinganimated, bouncing, brisk, energetic, frisky, gay, jaunty, jazzy, lively, peppy, perky, pert, racy, snappy, spanking, sparky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, springy, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zippyable-bodied, chipper, fit, hale, healthy, hearty, robust, sound, well, whole, wholesome deadlyadverbto a great degreeI'm deadly serious about making an offer on the house achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly(also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous(chiefly dialect), mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly absolutely, altogether, completely, downright, entirely, flat-out, fully, positively, purely, radically, thoroughly, totally, utterly, whollydeeply, profoundlyexceptionally, notably, remarkablyconsiderably, extensively, significantly, substantiallyappreciably, discernibly, markedly, noticeably, obviously, palpably, plainly, visiblyabundantly, plentifullyastronomically, grandly, monstrously, monumentallyexcessively, obscenely, overmuchamazingly, astonishingly, staggeringly a lot, as all get-out, good and little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat meagerly, scantilybarely, hardly, just, marginally, minimally, scarcely adj.deadly, mortal, fatal, lethal mean causing or capable of causing death.deadly applies to an established or very likely cause of death.a deadly disease mortal implies that death has occurred or is inevitable.a mortal wound fatal stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction.fatal consequences lethal applies to something that is bound to cause death or exists for the destruction of life.lethal gas before the 12th century |