deadly
deadly is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as adjective and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.
- adjective. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
- adjective. Subject to death; mortal.
- adverb. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.
- adverb. In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
- adverb. In an implacable manner; destructively.
- adverb. Extremely.
- adjective. (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- adjective. causing or capable of causing death
"a fatal accident"
"a deadly enemy"
- adjective. of an instrument of certain death
"deadly poisons"
"lethal weapon"
- adjective. exceedingly harmful
- adjective. involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
"the seven deadly sins"
- adjective. extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
"venomous snakes"
"a virulent insect bite"
- adverb. (used as intensives) extremely
"she was madly in love"
"deadly dull"
- adverb. as if dead
Synonyms
deathly, mortal, lethal, baneful, pernicious, pestilent, venomous, virulent, deucedly, devilishly, insanely, madly, lifelessly
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