Deadly - definition, pronunciation, transcription
adverb
adjective
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death (syn: mortal)
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
Extra examples
They launched a deadly attack.
Officers are allowed to use deadly force if necessary.
She shoots with deadly accuracy.
A deadly silence followed his question.
The two gang leaders are deadly enemies.
He spoke with deadly seriousness.
...I'm deadly serious about making an offer on the house....
They were locked together in deadly wrestle, each with a hand upon the other's throat.
His face had a deadly paleness.
We sat in deadly silence.
He was in deadly earnest (=completely serious).
She hit the target with deadly accuracy.
...called for the prompt mobilization of all national resources to combat the deadly epidemic...
...in The Odyssey, Ulysses is trapped between the six-headed monster Scylla and Charybdis, a deadly whirlpool that threatens to suck in his ship...
I am pushed for money, deadly.
Word forms
comparative: deadlier
superlative: deadliest
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