Deadly

Definition: Deadly

Deadly

Adjective

1. Causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness".

2. Of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection".

3. Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite".

4. (theology) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins".

5. Exceedingly harmful.

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

Adverb

1. As if dead.

2. As if produced by death; "deadly pale"; "a deadly paralytic stroke".

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deadly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Deadly

Arms

Noun: arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament, armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor; (defense); armory; (store); apparatus belli.

Death

Stillborn; mortuary; deadly. (killing).

Destruction

Destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating; incendiary, deletory; destroying; n. suicidal; deadly; (killing).

Dullness

Phrase: davus sum non Aedipus; deadly dull and boring, DDB.

Guilt

Enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; "deed without a name".

Inexpedience

Corrupting; (corrupt; ); virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive; poisonous; (morbific); deadly; (killing); destructive; (destroying); inauspicious.

Insalubrity

Deadly; (killing).

Killing

Mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous, lethiferous; unhealthy; internecine; suicidal.

Deadly weapon. (arms); Aceldama.

Crosswords: Deadly

Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

We are deadly over shorter distances (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trival (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker)

Here at Itchy and Scratchy Land, we're just as concerned with violence as you are. That's why we're always careful to show the consequences of deadly mayhem, so that we may educate as well as horrify (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Now drop your weapons or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Hide thee deadly black tarantula ("Banana Boat (Day-O)"; performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

Knowledge is a deadly friend (EPITAPH; performing artist: King Crimson)

Deadly Desire (1991)

One Deadly Owner (1974)

Deadly Weapons (1973)

The Deadly Trackers (1973)

Deadly Visitor (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Deadly Embrace (reference)

• Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance Official Strategy Guide (reference)

• Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It (reference)

• Three Plums in One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Deadly Directory (reference)

• Deadly Pleasures (reference)

• Deadly Vibe (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Kiss Me Deadly (reference)

• Steven Seagal New Collection (Hard to Kill /On Deadly Ground/Under Siege) (reference)

• On Deadly Ground (reference)

• The Deadly Mantis (reference)

• Walker Texas Ranger: Deadly Reunion (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins; Little Threepenny Music (reference)

• Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins & Berlin Theatre Songs (reference)

• Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years [EXTRA TRACKS] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Twelve Deadly Cyns (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance (reference)

• TKKG: Deadly Chocolate (reference)

• Deadly Arts G.A.S.P. (reference)

• Deadly Dozen : Pacific Theater (reference)

• Simpsons: Escape from Camp Deadly (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"It has been brought to my attention that we must deal with a deadly disease." / Basset. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

AIDS : sex with a stranger could be a deadly affair. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Fight The Peril Behind The Lines : Between Sundown And Sunrise ... The Malaria Mosquito Is More Deadly Than The Enemy. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Lo, the fell monster with the deadly sting who passes mountains, breaks through fenced walls and firm embattled spears, and with his filth taints all the world - Dante's Inferno. Credit: Library of Congress.

His face assumed a deadly pallor -- the paper was a blank. Credit: Library of Congress.

He was deadly pale-- never have I seen a man so white. Credit: Library of Congress.

The deadly wire fence, or how an eminent Senator may lose his seat. Credit: Library of Congress.

That deadly dope. Credit: Library of Congress.

Snake charmers handling the deadly hooded cobra - Delhi, India. Credit: Library of Congress.

The plane is of German design but natives of the Dutch East Indies have been trained to operate it with deadly efficiency. It's a twelve-ton trimotor Dornier bomber belonging to the Royal Netherlands Navy, the greater part of which is still fighting the N. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly then

But this wandering had terminated in a word which Marius did understand, and which was a deadly insult to Cosette

Evil company on earth is so noxious that even the plants, as if by instinct, withdraw from the company of whatsoever is deadly or hurtful to them

How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak

Salesmen, neat, deadly, small intent eyes watching for weaknesses

On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They also risk deadly bleeding into the brain. (references)

Their biggest danger is chicken pox which can be deadly. (references)

In fact, subarachnoid hemorrhage is the most deadly of all strokes. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

In February 1999, the Government forbade all state health departments from commenting on the outbreak of a deadly virus. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

The Government frequently failed to prevent deadly violence among inmates. (references)

Uzbekistan

Tuberculosis and hepatitis are epidemic in the prisons, making even short periods of incarceration potentially deadly. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

In Punjab in particular, a deadly pattern of Sunni-Shi'a violence in which extremists killed persons because of their membership in rival sectarian organizations, or simply for their religious identification, continued. (references)

Political Economy

Venezuela

Excessive use of deadly force by police and security forces continued to be a serious problem. (references)

Nigeria

In most cases, neither the state anticrime task forces, the police, nor the armed forces were held accountable for excessive, deadly use of force or the death of persons in custody. (references)

Worker Rights

South Africa

Although attention to these issues has increased significantly, the country's industrial and mining processes are dangerous and sometimes deadly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "deadly": a deadly fight ♦ deadly amanita ♦ deadly boring ♦ deadly dull ♦ deadly dull and boring ♦ deadly embrace ♦ deadly enemies ♦ deadly enemy ♦ deadly nightshade ♦ deadly pale ♦ deadly poison ♦ deadly sin ♦ Deadly sins ♦ deadly weapon ♦ in deadly haste. Additional references.

Beginning with "deadly": deadly-serious.

Ending with "deadly": non-deadly.

Albanian

vdekjesjellës, vdekjeprurës (baneful, basilisk, fatal, feral, homicidal, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, murderous, pestilent, pestilential, vital), i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مميت (deathly, fatal, fateful, gangrenous, grave, internecine, lethal, mortal, pernicious), ‏مهلك (annihilating, baleful, baneful, deathly, destructive, fatal, internecine, lethal, murderous, pernicious, pestilent, ruinous, withering), ‏لدود (bitter, inveterate, stubborn), ‏قاتل (assassin, battle, combat, engage, fight, killer, lethal, manslayer, murdered, murderer, murderous, vital, war), ‏زعاف سم (poison), ‏على نحو مذكر بالموت, ‏إلى حد بعيد (closely, deucedly, devilishly, exceedingly, mightily, more, most, so, that, very, well, widely), ‏بإفراط (beastly, exceedingly, excessively, extremely, hard, overmuch, passing, unduly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), смъртоносен (fatal, homicidal, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, murderous, pestilent), смъртен (capital, clayey, death, deathly, earthborn, fatal, mortal, mortuary), непоносим (importunate, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, murderous, pestiferous, provoking, thick, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable). (various references)

Chinese 

致死 , 致命 (Deathly, fatal, Fatalities, Fatality), 死亡 (death). (various references)

Czech

zhoubný (baleful, baneful, destructive, hurtful, malign, malignant, noisome, pernicious, ruinous, unwholesome, virulent), vražedný (blistering, homicidal, killing, murderous, savage), smrticí, smrtelný (deathlike, deathly, fatal, killing, lethal, mortal, unrelieved, unutterable), smrtelnì (fatally, mortally), hroznì (abominably, abysmally, appallingly, awfully, frightfully, hellishly, hideously, horribly, painfully), hrobový (dead, deathly). (various references)

Danish

dødelig (lethal). (various references)

Dutch

moorddadig. (various references)

Esperanto

mortiga. (various references)

Farsi 

مهلک (Dire, Fatal, Lethal, Mortal, Noxious, Pernicious), کشنده (Attractive, Fatal, Killer, Mortal, Murderous, Pernicious, Tracker), قاتل (Assassin, Bane, Cutthroat, Killer, Murderer, Slayer, Thug). (various references)

Finnish

kuolettava (fatal, lethal, mortal). (various references)

French

mortel (deathly). (various references)

Frisian

deadlik. (various references)

German

tödlich (deathlily, deathly, fatal, killing, lethal, lethally, mortal, mortally, perishing, unrelieved, virulent). (various references)

Greek 

μοιραίος (fatal, fateful), φονικόσ, αμείλικτοσ (inexorable, relentless, unsparing), αδυσώπητοσ (implacable, inexorable, unrelenting), θανάσιμα (deathly), θανάσιμοσ (deathly, lethal, mortal), θανατηφόροσ (fatal, lethal). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממית (deathly, lethal), קטלני (destructive, drastic, homicidal, lethal, murderous), רצחני (cutthroat, murderous). (various references)

Hungarian

halálosan (deathly, fatally, mortally, to death), halálos (deathly, fatal, fatalities, killing, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, pestilent). (various references)

Indonesian

membawa maut (fatal, lethal). (various references)

Italian

mortale (deathlike, deathly, fatal, killing, lethal, mortal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

猛毒 (deadly poison). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおまじめ (deadly serious), しんとする (to be deadly silent, to be silent), もうどく (deadly poison), げきどく (deadly poison). (various references)

Korean 

치명 (fatal, lethal). (various references)

Manx

nieunagh (bitter as enemy;snakiness, bitter;snakiness, bleak, bleak of wind, poisonous, scathing, toxic, venomous, virulent, vitriolic), marrooagh (fatal, internecine, lethal, overpowering), dy marrooagh, dunveragh (homicidal, murderous), baasoil (fatal). (various references)

Papiamen

mortal. (various references)

Pig Latin

eadlyday.(various references)

Portuguese

mortal (cutthroat, dead, deathlike, deathly, earth-born, fatal, fleshly, killing, lethal, mortal, pernicious, pestilent, swashing). (various references)

Romanian

de mort, de moarte (deathly, dying, lethal, to death), ucigaş (assassin, bloodthirsty, bravo, choker, cut throat, fatal, felon, homicidal, homicide, killer, murderer, murderous, sanguinary, thug), teribil de (damned, frightfully), mortal (deathly, fatal, fatally, killing, lethal, mortally, to death, vital), funest (baneful, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful, feral, sinister), fatal (deathly, fatal, fateful, feral, inevitably, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, vital, weird), cadaveric (cadaverous, ghastly), înverşunat (desperate, fierce, fiery, frenzied, furious, hot, rabid, sharp, stubborn). (various references)

Russian 

смертоносный (internecine, killing, lethal, lethiferous, murderous, pestilent), смертный (death, earthborn, earth-born, man born of woman, mortal), смертельный (deathly, fatal, killing, lethal, lethiferous, mortal), чрезвычайно (capitally, confoundedly, damnably, enormously, exceedingly, extraordinarily, extremely, highly, immensely, in the extreme, increasingly, like smth., mightily, plenty, ripping, the worst kind, utterly), неумолимый (immitigable, implacable, relentless, unforgiving). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ubojit, smrtan (fatal, mortal). (various references)

Spanish

terriblemente (awfully, beastly, calamitously, Deuce, frightfully, head over heels, hellish, horribly, jolly, painfully, terribly), mortalmente (deathly, fatally, mortally), mortal (deathly, earth-born, fatal, killer, killing, lethal, mortal, mortally), letal (baneful, lethal), fatal (desperate, dire, dismal, fatal, fateful, ghastly, ill-fated, lethal). (various references)

Swedish

dödligt (deathly, fatally, mortally), dödlig (deathly, earthborn, fatal, fell, killing, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, terminal). (various references)

Turkish

son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), amansız (close, implacable, inexorable, merciless, ruthless, stern, unappeasable, unpitying, without remorse), ölesiye, öldürücü (baneful, deathlike, deathly, fatal, fateful, fell, homicidal, killing, lethal, murderous, perishing, pestilent, pestilential, virulent, vital), ölümcül (fatal, pernicious), ölümüne (to death, to the death), ölüm (bitter end, capital, death, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, killing, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, mortuary, necro-, obituary, passing, passing away, quietus, rest, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb), ölü gibi bir halde, çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Ukrainian

страшенно (almighty, aloud, as anything, awfully, bloody, devilish, disgustingly, fearfully, frightfully, horribly, precious, terrible), смертоносний (basilisk, homicidal, internecine, lethal, murderous, pestilent, slaughterous), смертний (brittle, earthborn, human, mortal), смертельно (dead, deathly, mortally), смертельний (deathlike, deathly, mortal), невблаганний (adamant, grim, immitigable, implacable, uncompromising), надзвичайно (almighty, amain, anxiously, as anything, awfully, densely, dreadfully, eminently, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, grossly, highly, hugely, in great measure, in the extreme, jolly, mighty, most, passing, regular, remarkably, ripping, sevenfold, severely, to the utmost, very much, woundily), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trí mạng, như chết vô cùng, làm chết người (baneful, lethal), hết sức (all-fired, blooming, dogged, enourmously, extremely, fault, frightfuly, grossly, half, halves, handle, highly, howling, hugely, immortally, jolly, mightily, mighty, out, precious, profound, sorely, thoroughly, thundering, unco), cực kỳ (beastly, damned, dogged, frightfuly, mortally, most, parlous, ripping, thundering, whacking). (various references)

Welsh

marwol (fatal, mortal), angheuol (fatal, mortal). (various references)

Atropa belladonna, Atropa bella-donna, Atropa Belladonna L., carnificem, fatalis, funebri, funestus, letalis, letifer, mactabilis, mortifer, mortiferae, mortiferum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Deadly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beadly, dadely, Dadley, dadly, Daldry, dawdly, deadle, deally, dealy, Deasley, dedal, deely, Desailly, Dezalay, Divadlo, Dladla, doodly, dreadl, dudely, readly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: addle, dedal, delay, laded, layed, leady.

-2 letters: dale, dead, deal, dyad, dyed, eddy, lade, lady, lead, yald, yeld.

-3 letters: add, ale, aye, dad, dal, day, del, dey, dye, eld, lad, lay, lea, led, ley, lye, yea.

-4 letters: ad, ae, al, ay, de, ed, el, la, ya, ye.

+1 letter: addedly, datedly, dazedly, delayed, fadedly, jadedly.

+2 letters: aldehyde, bladdery, dialysed, dialyzed, saddlery.

+3 letters: advisedly, aldehydes, aldehydic, displayed, guardedly, holidayed.

+4 letters: additively, admittedly, daylighted, decadently, degradedly, dependably, depravedly, detachedly, detailedly, downplayed, dreadfully, epididymal, outdatedly.

+5 letters: daredevilry, deadeningly, dedicatedly, degradingly, demandingly, fatheadedly, hotheadedly, hydroplaned, maddeningly, offhandedly, paraldehyde, pigheadedly, redisplayed, redundantly, unadvisedly, undauntedly, underplayed, unguardedly.