deadliness

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.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

deadliness - the quality of being deadly lethality unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity - the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you fatality - the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

Translations

deadliness [ˈdedlɪnɪs] N

1. [of poison] → letalidad f; [of aim] → certeza f

2. (= boredom) → tedio m

deadliness

n (of poison, weapon) → tödliche Wirkung; (of wit, sarcasm) → vernichtende Wirkung; (inf, = boringness) → tödliche Langeweile; (= awfulness) → Entsetzlichkeit f