deathly
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6.8
- adjective
- /ˈdɛθli/
:
mortal
- Doctors were mystified as to what was causing this otherwise healthy forty-nine-year-old man to become so deathly ill.
- deathly ill
As if the chaos the Gnaws Wood police was not just the drunken murderous rowdiness of San Francisco, but the deathly destruction of Shiloh and Antietam.
- As if the chaos the Gnaws Wood police was not just the drunken murderous rowdiness of San Francisco, but the deathly destruction of Shiloh and Antietam.
Examples
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Besides, she was deathly afraid to let go of his hand.
Fiction book (1995) -
If you missed my class, you must be deathly ill.
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Winter can be deathly cold, even in North Carolina.
Fiction book (1997) -
You know I'm deathly afraid of heights, right?
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Liburd concluded that most others became deathly ill.
Academic text (2000) -
After the intense game, the player felt deathly exhausted and was unable to stand.
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The poison in the spider's bite can be deathly, leading to serious health issues if untreated.
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He was warned that without treatment, the disease could become deathly serious.
Synonyms
543
2.8
Able to cause death or serious harm
224
3.7
Causing a person's death
193
4.8
Able to cause death, for example by a weapon or poison
Antonyms
How Deadly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deathly comes from death + -ly, and it has also been used to mean 'likely to cause death'. So a deathly illness is one that is very dangerous and could kill someone.