DEADLY as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
   Similar To
   • virulent (what does virulent mean?)
2. Meaning
   • causing or capable of causing death
   Synonym(s)
   • deathly (what does deathly mean?)
   • mortal (what does mortal mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a fatal accident
   • a deadly enemy
   • mortal combat
   • a mortal illness
   Similar To
   • fatal (what does fatal mean?)
3. Meaning
   • of an instrument of certain death
   Synonym(s)
   • lethal (what does lethal mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • deadly poisons
   • lethal weapon
   • a lethal injection
   Similar To
   • fatal (what does fatal mean?)
4. Meaning
   • exceedingly harmful
   Synonym(s)
   • baneful (what does baneful mean?)
   • pernicious (what does pernicious mean?)
   • pestilent (what does pestilent mean?)
   Similar To
   • noxious (what does noxious mean?)
   • harmful (what does harmful mean?)
5. Meaning
   • involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
   Synonym(s)
   • mortal(a) (what does mortal(a) mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the seven deadly sins
   Similar To
   • unpardonable (what does unpardonable mean?)
6. Meaning
   • extremely poisonous or injurious
   • producing venom
   Synonym(s)
   • venomous (what does venomous mean?)
   • virulent (what does virulent mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • venomous snakes
   • a virulent insect bite
   Similar To
   • toxic (what does toxic mean?)

DEADLY as ADVERB

1. Meaning
   • (used as intensives) extremely
   Synonym(s)
   • deucedly (what does deucedly mean?)
   • devilishly (what does devilishly mean?)
   • insanely (what does insanely mean?)
   • madly (what does madly mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • she was madly in love
   • deadly dull
   • deadly earnest
   • deucedly clever
   • insanely jealous
2. Meaning
   • as if produced by death
   Usage Example(s)
   • deadly pale
   • a deadly paralytic stroke
3. Meaning
   • as if dead
   Synonym(s)
   • lifelessly (what does lifelessly mean?)
   Pertainym(s)
   • lifeless (what does lifeless mean?)
   • exanimate (what does exanimate mean?)
   • dead (what does dead mean?)