deadly

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

deadly \dead"ly\, adv.
   1. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death;
      deathly. "Deadly pale." --Shak.
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   2. In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
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            The groanings of a deadly wounded man. --Ezek. xxx.
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   3. In an implacable manner; destructively.
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   4. Extremely. [Obs.] "Deadly weary." --Orrery. "So deadly
      cunning a man." --Arbuthnot.
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deadly \dead"ly\, a.
   1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive;
      certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or
      wound.
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   2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately
      hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
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            Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.]
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            The image of a deadly man.            --Wyclif (Rom.
                                                  i. 23).
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   {Deadly nightshade} (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna.
      See under {Nightshade}.
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213 Moby Thesaurus words for "deadly":
      a la mort, abominably, accurate, agonizingly, ashen, awful,
      awfully, baldly, baleful, balefully, baneful, barbaric, barbarous,
      bitterly, blatantly, bloodthirsty, blue, boring, brashly, brutal,
      cadaverous, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic,
      catching, cold-blooded, communicable, confoundedly, consuming,
      consumptive, contagious, corpselike, corroding, corrosive,
      corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cruelly, damaging,
      damnably, dangerous, dead, deadened, death-bringing, deathful,
      deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, deleterious, demolishing,
      demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive,
      detrimental, deucedly, devastating, disadvantageous, disastrous,
      disserviceable, distressing, distressingly, dolorously, doomful,
      dreadful, dreadfully, dreary, dull, eerie, egregiously, envenomed,
      exact, excessively, excruciating, excruciatingly, exorbitantly,
      extravagantly, fatal, fateful, fearful, feral, ferocious,
      flagrantly, fratricidal, frightful, frightfully, ghastly,
      ghostlike, ghostly, grievously, grisly, gruesome, haggard, harmful,
      heartless, hellishly, homicidal, horrible, horribly, howling,
      humdrum, hurtful, implacable, improperly, inexcusably, infectious,
      infective, infernally, inhuman, injurious, inordinately,
      internecine, intolerably, killing, lamentably, lethal, livid,
      lurid, macabre, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mephitic,
      merciless, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, miserably,
      mortal, mortuary, murderous, nakedly, nihilist, nihilistic,
      noisome, noxious, ominous, openly, painfully, pale, pallid,
      pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, piteously,
      pitiless, poisonous, precise, prejudicial, ravaging, rousing,
      ruining, ruinous, ruthless, sadly, savage, scatheful,
      self-destructive, shatteringly, shockingly, slaying,
      something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly,
      subversionary, subversive, suicidal, tedious, terrible, terribly,
      terrific, thumping, tiresome, to the death, torturously, toxic,
      toxicant, toxiferous, true, unashamedly, unbearably, uncanny,
      unconscionably, unduly, unearthly, unerring, unfailing,
      unpardonably, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, venenate,
      veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wan, wasteful,
      wasting, wearisome, wearying, weird, whacking, white, withering,
      woefully