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 Definitions of deadly  [ˈdɛd li]  

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Definition of 'deadly' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) deadly
causing or tending to cause death; lethal.

2.  deadly
aiming to kill or destroy; implacable:
a deadly enemy.

3.  deadly
like death.

4.  deadly
excruciatingly boring.

5.  deadly
excessive; inordinate:
deadly haste.

6.  deadly
extremely accurate:
a deadly shot.

7. (adv.) deadly
in a manner suggesting death:
deadly pale.

8.  deadly
completely:
deadly dull.

Etymology:  (1570–80)

Definition of 'deadly' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) deadly, deathly, mortal
causing or capable of causing death
"a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"

2. (adj) deadly, lethal
of an instrument of certain death
"deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"

3. (adj) deadly, venomous, virulent
extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
"venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"

4. (adj) deadly, mortal(a)
involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
"the seven deadly sins"

5. (adj) baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
exceedingly harmful

6. (adverb) deadly
(of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect

7. (adverb) deadly, lifelessly
as if dead

8. (adverb) madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly
(used as intensives) extremely
"she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"


Definition of 'deadly' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) deadly
likely to cause death
a deadly snake; a deadly e-bola outbreak


Definition of 'deadly' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) deadly
capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound

2. (adj) deadly
aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies

3. (adj) deadly
subject to death; mortal

4. (adverb) deadly
in a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death

5. (adverb) deadly
in a manner to occasion death; mortally

6. (adverb) deadly
in an implacable manner; destructively

7. (adverb) deadly
extremely


Translation of 'deadly' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: causing death
a deadly poison.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: dodelik Arabic flag Arabic: مُميت، قَتّال Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: смъртоносно
Brazilian flag Brazilian: mortal Czech flag Czech: smrtelný German flag German: tödlich
Danish flag Danish: dødelig Greek flag Greek: θανατηφόρος Spanish flag Spanish: mortal
Estonian flag Estonian: surmav Farsi flag Farsi: کشنده؛ مهلک Finnish flag Finnish: tappava
French flag French: mortel Hebrew flag Hebrew: קַטלָנִי Hindi flag Hindi: घातक, जानलेवा
Croatian flag Croatian: smrtonosan Hungarian flag Hungarian: halálos Indonesian flag Indonesian: mematikan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: banvænn Italian flag Italian: mortale Japanese flag Japanese: 命取りの
Korean flag Korean: 치명적인 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: mirtinas Latvian flag Latvian: nāvīgs; nāvējošs
Malay flag Malay: mematikan Dutch flag Dutch: dodelijk Norwegian flag Norwegian: dødbringende, dødelig
Polish flag Polish: śmiertelny Persian flag Persian: کشنده؛ مهلک Pashto flag Pashto: وژونكى، مخالف، مهلك، زرلر
Portuguese flag Portuguese: mortal Romanian flag Romanian: mortal Russian flag Russian: смертельный
Slovak flag Slovak: smrteľný Slovenian flag Slovenian: smrtonosen Serbian flag Serbian: smrtonosan
Swedish flag Swedish: dödlig Thai flag Thai: เป็นอันตรายถึงตายได้ Turkish flag Turkish: öldürücü, ölümcül
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 殊死的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: смертельний Urdu flag Urdu: مہلک
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: chết người Chinese flag Chinese: 致死的,致命的

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