deathly
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6.2
- adverb
- /ˈdɛθli/
- Case in point: I'm deathly afraid of spiders.
- deathly afraid
- deathly ill
- deathly quiet
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Watch on YouTubeAnd I have someone like my partner is deathly afraid of needles, medical procedures.
- And I have someone like my partner is deathly afraid of needles, medical procedures.
- Either he's incapable of reciprocating because he's so deathly shy that he can't do anything.
- Yeah, deathly afraid of marijuana and crack.
- And he wrote about how he was deathly afraid of their deity, Bel Marduk.
- So I'm, I am deathly afraid that's going to happen.
- And then a few hours later, a little boy in the in the tribe falls deathly ill.
- So when it comes to the planning stage of the of the war, invasion of Ukraine, they're deathly afraid of telling him the truth.
- I was deathly afraid of being perceived as anything other than perfect for a long time.
- You always felt like nobody had your back in a way, which was something exciting about it and deathly alarming, like.
- But he is, it is weird, deathly afraid and how he pretends.
- Am I ruined by myself fucking deathly afraid?
- I guess you could say I make a deathly good spag ball, Right?
Examples
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And the thought of facing her without you makes me deathly nervous.
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As a kid, I was deathly afraid of lightning, but I also wanted to be a weatherman.
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Like I was when I was in like primary school, high school, I was deathly afraid of public speaking.
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Suddenly, everything is deathly quiet.
Fiction book (1990) -
It's deathly cold in here.
Fiction book (1990) -
I was deathly afraid of being perceived as anything other than perfect for a long time.
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I'm deathly afraid of him, of what he might do.
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They know they don't know enough to hold their jobs, and they're deathly afraid somebody will show them up.
Fiction book (1991) -
The plaintiffs' bar is deathly afraid that this will happen because it means the complete elimination of home-run verdicts.
Blog text (5) -
I was deathly afraid of heights, which made climbing the ladder a terrifying experience.
Synonyms
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3.5
Very, showing strong feeling or excellent quality
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1.0
To a very great degree
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7.8
Completely used to show strong emphasis
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4.6
To a very great degree
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3.9
To a very high degree
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4.4
Shows that something is very bad, unpleasant, or extreme
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7.1
In a way that can cause death or show very strong feeling
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7.2
In a way that causes great harm, pain, or sadness
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deathly comes from death + -ly, meaning 'in the way of death' or 'like death', just like the everyday word dead. So when someone is deathly afraid or deathly pale, we mean extremely, as if they felt like death.