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deadly

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deadly in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. exceedingly harmful
    baneful  deadly  pernicious  pestilent 
  2. extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
    "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"
    deadly  venomous  virulent 
  3. involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
    "the seven deadly sins"
    deadly  mortal 
  4. (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
    deadly 
  5. causing or capable of causing death
    "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
    deadly  deathly  mortal 
  6. of an instrument of certain death
    "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
    deadly  lethal 
adverb
  1. (used as intensives) extremely
    "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"
    madly  insanely  deadly  deucedly  devilishly  madly  insanely  deadly  deucedly  devilishly 
  2. as if dead
    deadly  lifelessly  deadly  lifelessly 
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