Deathly

Definitions: Deathly

Deathly

Adjective

1. Having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly pallor".

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

Adverb

1. In the manner of death; "he was deathly pale".

Date "deathly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Deathly

Synonyms: deadly (adj), deathlike (adj), mortal (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Deathly

English words defined with "deathly": deathlike, Deathliness. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You know she's deathly afraid of snakes! (Wonder Woman; writing credit: Sandra Paretti)
Lyrics	And the night got deathly quiet, and his faced lost all expression. ("The Gambler"; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)
Movie/TV Titles	Deathly Realities (1985)
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Domain	Title
Books	Deathly Delights (reference) Deathly Pale (reference) Deathly Waters and Hungry Mountains: Agrarian Ritual and Class Formation in an Andean Town (Anthropological Horizons, 4) (reference) Else Lasker-Schuler: Inside This Deathly Solitude (Berg Women's Series) (reference) Silence Unheard: Deathly Otherness in Patanjala-Yoga (Suny Series in Hindu Studies) (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It seemed to him that these distant splendours, far from dissipating his night, made it blacker and more deathly.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Matthew Perry	I also had a strange rule about that. I never mixed them, either. One thing at a time for me. One deathly dangerous thing at a time.
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"Deathly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Deathly" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	100	32,668

Expressions using "deathly": deathly hush ♦ deathly pale ♦ deathly silence ♦ deathly stillness. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "deathly": deathly-tinted.
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Language		Translations for "deathly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		për vdekje (at death's door, fatally, mortal, mortally), fatal (baneful, fatal, fateful, feral, pernicious, vital). (various references)

Arabic		‏مميت (deadly, fatal, fateful, gangrenous, grave, internecine, lethal, mortal, pernicious), ‏مهلك (annihilating, baleful, baneful, deadly, destructive, fatal, internecine, lethal, murderous, pernicious, pestilent, ruinous, withering), ‏صمت الموت, ‏شبيه بالموت. (various references)

Bulgarian		смъртно (mortally), смъртен (capital, clayey, deadly, death, earthborn, fatal, mortal, mortuary), мъртвешки (cadaveric, cadaverous, deathlike, ghastly). (various references)

Chinese		致命 (Deadly, fatal, Fatalities, Fatality). (various references)

Czech		smrtelný (deadly, deathlike, fatal, killing, lethal, mortal, unrelieved, unutterable), mrtvolný (cadaveric, cadaverous), hrobový (dead, deadly). (various references)

Finnish		kuolonkalpea (deathly pale), kalmankalpea (deathly pale). (various references)

French		semblable de mort (deathlike), prolongé dans le silence de mort, mortel (deadly), comme la mort. (various references)

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

Greek		νεκρικόσ (deathlike, funereal), μακάβριοσ (lurid, macabre), θανάσιμα (deadly), θανάσιμοσ (deadly, lethal, mortal), θανατικόσ (death, lethal). (various references)

Hebrew		ממית (deadly, lethal). (various references)

Hungarian		halálosan (deadly, fatally, mortally, to death). (various references)

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

Japanese Kanji		土色 (ashen, deathly pale, earth color), 土気色 (ashen, deathly pale, earth color). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		つちいろ (ashen, deathly pale, earth color), つちけいろ (ashen, deathly pale, earth color). (various references)

Pig Latin		eathlyday.(various references)

Portuguese		de morte (deathlike), mortal (cutthroat, dead, deadly, deathlike, earth-born, fatal, fleshly, killing, lethargic, mortal, mortality, pernickety, pestilent, swashing). (various references)

Romanian		de moarte (deadly, dying, lethal, to death), mortal (deadly, fatal, fatally, killing, lethal, mortally, to death, vital), fatal (deadly, fatal, fateful, feral, inevitably, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, vital, weird). (various references)

Russian		смертельный (deadly, fatal, killing, lethal, lethiferous, mortal), смертельно (fatally, mortally, terminally), мертвенный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		smrtonosno, kobno (unhappily), koban (calamitous, dire, fatal, fateful, malign, portentous, unhappy). (various references)

Spanish		de morir, mortalmente (deadly, fatally, mortally), mortal (deadly, earth-born, fatal, killer, killing, lethal, mortal, mortally). (various references)

Swedish		dödlig (deadly, earthborn, fatal, fell, killing, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, terminal). (various references)

Turkish		öldürücü (baneful, deadly, deathlike, fatal, fateful, fell, homicidal, killing, lethal, murderous, perishing, pestilent, pestilential, virulent, vital), ölüm gibi (deathlike). (various references)

Ukranian		смертельно (dead, deadly, mortally), смертельний (deadly, deathlike, mortal), фатальний (basilisk, fatal, fateful, fey, weird), подібний до смерті (deathlike). (various references)

Vietnamese		như chết (deathlike), l� m chết người như chết. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Deathly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dathy, deathy, Delahay, destly, Keithley, Leathley. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "deathly" (pronounced de"thlē)
3	-th l ē	bimonthly, blithely, earthly, fourthly, monthly, unearthly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-t-y"
	-1 letter: daleth, deathy, halted, hyetal, lathed.
	-2 letters: dealt, death, delay, delta, ethyl, haled, hated, hayed, heady, lated, lathe, lathy, layed, leady.
	-3 letters: dahl, dale, date, deal, delt, dhal, eath, hade, haed, haet, hale, halt, hate, head, heal, heat, held, hyla, hyte, lade, lady, late, lath, lead, tael, tale, teal, tela, thae, they, yald, yeah, yeld.
	-4 letters: ale, alt, ate, aye, dah, dal, day, del, dey, dye, eat, edh, eld, eta, eth, had, hae, hat, hay, het, hey, lad, lat, lay, lea, led, let, ley, lye, tad, tae, tea, ted, tel, the, thy, tye, yah, yea, yeh, yet.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, ah, al, at, ay, de, ed, eh, el, et, ha, he, la, ta, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-l-t-y"
	+1 letter: heatedly.
	+2 letters: ethylated, tallyhoed.
	+3 letters: adherently, daylighted, detachably, detachedly, methylated, methyldopa.
	+4 letters: deathlessly, fatheadedly, hotheadedly, hydrolysate, hydrolyzate, hydroxylate, methyldopas.
	+5 letters: acetaldehyde, bigheartedly, farsightedly, hereditarily, hydrolysates, hydrolyzates, hydrothermal, hydroxylated, hydroxylates, mealymouthed, methodically, octahedrally, rehydratable, softheadedly.
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