deadly (redirected from deadliest)

dead·ly  (ddl)

adj. dead·li·er, dead·li·est

1. Causing or tending to cause death: deadly weapons; a deadly spill of radioactive waste products. See Synonyms at fatal.

2. Suggestive of death: a deadly pallor.

3. Aiming or wanting to kill; implacable: deadly enemies.

4.

a. Destructive in effect: gave the film a deadly review.

b. Tending to take away vitality, effectiveness, or force: the deadly habit of procrastination.

5. Absolute; utter: deadly concentration.

6. Extreme or terrible: worked under deadly strain.

7. Extremely accurate; unerring: She is a deadly shot with the bow.

8. Dull, tedious, and boring: a deadly prose style.

adv.

1. So as to suggest death.

2. To an extreme: deadly serious.

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deadli·ness n.

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deadly

Adjective

[-lier, -liest]

1. likely to cause death: deadly poison

2. Informal extremely boring

Adverb, adj

like or suggestive of death: deadly pale

Adverb

extremely: she was being deadly serious

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	deadly - causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" deathly, mortal fatal - bringing death
	2.	deadly - of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection" lethal fatal - bringing death
	3.	deadly - extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" venomous, virulent toxic - of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison; "suffering from exposure to toxic substances"
	4.	deadly - involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" mortal theology, divinity - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth unpardonable - not admitting of pardon; "unpardonable behavior"
	5.	deadly - exceedingly harmful baneful, pernicious, pestilent noxious - injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"
	6.	deadly - (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect virulent - infectious; having the ability to cause disease
Adv.	1.	deadly - as if dead lifelessly
	2.	deadly - (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" deucedly, insanely, madly, devilishly intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"

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deadly

adjective 1. lethal, fatal, deathly, dangerous, devastating, destructive, mortal, murderous, poisonous, malignant, virulent, pernicious, noxious, venomous, baleful, death-dealing, baneful

adjective 2. (Informal) boring, dull, tedious, flat, monotonous, uninteresting, mind-numbing, unexciting, ho-hum (informal) wearisome, as dry as dust

adjective 3. deathly, white, pale, ghostly, ghastly, wan, pasty, colourless, pallid, anaemic, ashen, sallow, whitish, cadaverous, waxen, ashy, deathlike, wheyfaced

Translations

deadly [ˈdɛdlɪ] adj → mortal, fatal;

deadly dull → aburridísimo

deadly [ˈdɛdlɪ] dead adj → mortel(le); [weapon] → meurtrier/ière;

deadly dull → ennuyeux/euse à mourir, mortellement ennuyeux

deadly [ˈdɛdlɪ] dead adj → tödlich

adv deadly dull → todlangweilig

deadly [ˈdɛdlɪ] adj → mortale; [weapon, poison] → micidiale

adv deadly dull → di una noia micidiale