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Synonyms for deadly
ˈdɛd lidead·ly

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. deadly

    Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.

    Synonyms:
    bad, baneful, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

    Antonyms:
    advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. deadly

    Synonyms:
    mortal, fatal, malignant, baleful, pernicious, noxious, venomous, destructive, baneful, implacable

    Antonyms:
    vital, life-giving, healthful, wholesome, nutritious

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 2 votes

  1. deadly, deathly, mortaladjective

    causing or capable of causing death

    "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"

    Synonyms:
    mortal, deathly, baneful, venomous, pestilent, lethal, virulent, deathlike, pernicious, mortal(a)

    Antonyms:
    pardonable, innocuous, nontoxic, nonfatal, avirulent, atoxic

  2. deadly, lethaladjective

    of an instrument of certain death

    "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"

    Synonyms:
    mortal, deathly, baneful, venomous, pestilent, lethal, virulent, pernicious, mortal(a)

    Antonyms:
    innocuous, nonfatal, avirulent, atoxic, pardonable, nontoxic

  3. deadly, venomous, virulentadjective

    extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom

    "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"

    Synonyms:
    virulent, blistering, pestilent, mortal(a), pernicious, sulfurous, mortal, baneful, acerbic, venomous, sulphurous, caustic, deathly, lethal, acrid, poisonous, vicious, acid, vitriolic, bitter, acerb

    Antonyms:
    innocuous, nontoxic, nonfatal, avirulent, pardonable, atoxic

  4. deadly, mortal(a)adjective

    involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death

    "the seven deadly sins"

    Antonyms:
    nonfatal, innocuous, atoxic, pardonable, nontoxic, avirulent

  5. baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilentadjective

    exceedingly harmful

    Synonyms:
    pernicious, pestiferous, deathly, virulent, baneful, venomous, baleful, mortal, insidious, lethal, pestilent, plaguey, subtle, pestilential, mortal(a)

    Antonyms:
    pardonable, nonfatal, atoxic, avirulent, nontoxic, innocuous

  6. deadlyadverb

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

    Synonyms:
    mortal, deathly, baneful, venomous, pestilent, lethal, virulent, pernicious, mortal(a)

    Antonyms:
    innocuous, avirulent, nonfatal, pardonable, atoxic, nontoxic

  7. deadly, lifelesslyadverb

    as if dead

    Synonyms:
    lifelessly, madly, devilishly, insanely, deucedly

    Antonyms:
    pardonable, atoxic, avirulent, nontoxic, nonfatal, innocuous

  8. madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishlyadverb

    (used as intensives) extremely

    "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"

    Synonyms:
    lifelessly, devilishly, fiendishly, dementedly, insanely, diabolically, madly, deucedly, devilish, crazily, frantically

    Antonyms:
    avirulent, nonfatal, pardonable, innocuous, nontoxic, atoxic

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. deadlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    mortal, fatal, destructive, deleterious, noxious, murderous

  2. deadlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    implacable, rancorous, sanguinary

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. deadlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    fatal, mortal, lethal, lethiferous, noxious, internecine, implacable, unrelenting

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How to use deadly in a sentence?

  1. Sharon Risher:

    Hate becomes deadly when Senate Democratic leaders make it far too easy for those intent on causing harm to get their hands on a gun.

  2. Susan Williams:

    Robin did not die from depression, robin had a deadly disease and it’s called Lewy body dementia. He had one of the worst cases they’d ever seen.

  3. Al Zadig:

    Certainly, there is a presidential character that requires truth telling, lying is a sin. There is no hierarchy of sin in the eyes of God although the consequences may be different in society. This creates a real struggle for many clergy and people of faith with the sin of murder from the perspective of abortion. ...Again, sin is non-hierarchical, but the consequences between lying and murder are so vastly different. As a priest, it provides an honest and powerful dilemma. But the common nature of what we call the seven deadly sins is that they kill the heart and the soul of a person.

  4. Tim Grace:

    He doesn’t take this lightly, he understands that what he did and what he had to do – and all law enforcement officers across the country, the last thing they want to do is to have to discharge their weapon and use deadly force.

  5. Jennifer Harrison:

    He's paving the way for an even bigger bloodbath than what we have seen in New York City already, it's going to be deadly.


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