Synonyms for deadly
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ded-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛd li |
Top 10 synonyms for deadly Other synonyms for the word deadly
- ashen
- baleful
- baneful
- bloodthirsty
- cannibalistic
- corpselike
- dead
- deadened
- death-dealing
- deathful
- deathlike
- deathly
- deleterious
- destroying
- grim
- homicidal
- injurious
- internecine
- killing
- mortal
- mortiferous
- murderous
- noxious
- pallid
- pernicious
- pestiferous
- pestilent
- pestilential
- poisonous
- ruthless
- savage
- slaying
- suicidal
- toxic
- unrelenting
- venomous
- violent
- virulent
- wan
- white
Définition of deadly
Origin :- Old English deadlic "mortal, subject to death," also "causing death;" see dead + -ly (1). Meaning "having the capacity to kill" is from late 14c. (Old English words for this included deaðbærlic, deaðberende).
- adj causing end of life
- adj ghostly
- The mosquito, quite ignored, would then have gone on in his deadly work.
- Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
- A choice had been put before her in deadly earnest; she had refused to make one.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- Robin's pale, blank face had a sick look, a deadly smoothness.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- One of its most deadly weapons is fatigue, or the simulation of fatigue.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- So, she went through the inferno of days and nights in a dreariness of suffering that was deadly.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- The young squire was deadly white from his exertions, both on the land and in the water.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- So simple were the words of her inquiry, but under them beat something evil, deadly.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- The peril about him was growing—growing, and it was a deadly peril!
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- The thought of the gas office and its deadly round sickened him.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- That is the precious document which this man thinks is deadly evidence.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
Antonyms for deadly
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