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  Definition of deadly
  1. (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
  2. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
  3. of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
  4. exceedingly harmful
  5. involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins"
  6. extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"
  7. (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"
  8. as if produced by death; "deadly pale"; "a deadly paralytic stroke"
  9. as if dead
Similar Words: deathly, mortal, lethal, baneful, pernicious, pestilent, mortal(a), venomous, virulent, madly, insanely, deucedly, devilishly, lifelessly

 

Pertainyms: lifeless, exanimate, dead

 

 
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