English dictionary
deadly
adjectivePronunciation
ˈdɛd.li
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
adjective
- causing or capable of causing death
adjective
- of an instrument of certain death
adjective
- exceedingly harmful
adjective
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
adjective
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
adverb
- (used as intensives) excessively
adverb
- as if dead
Example sentences
a deadly enemy
mortal combat
a mortal illness
deadly poisons
lethal weapon
a lethal injection
the seven deadly sins
venomous snakes
a virulent insect bite
she was madly in love
deadly dull
deadly earnest
deucedly clever
insanely jealous