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deathly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective deathly has 2 senses
- deathly(s = adj.all) deathlike - having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly pallor"
- deathly(s = adj.all) deadly, mortal - causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" Derived form noun death8
Adverbial deathly has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
deathly, adj. & adv.
--adj. (deathlier, deathliest) suggestive of death (deathly silence).
--adv. in a deathly way (deathly pale).
--adj. (deathlier, deathliest) suggestive of death (deathly silence).
--adv. in a deathly way (deathly pale).
THESAURUS
deathly
a la mort, abominably, agonizingly, appalling, awfully, baldly, balefully, baneful, bitterly, blatantly, blue, brashly, brutal, cadaverous, confoundedly, corpselike, cruelly, damnably, dead, deadened, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathlike, deathly pale, destructive, deucedly, distressingly, dolorously, dreadful, dreadfully, eerie, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, fatal, feral, flagrantly, frightfully, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grievously, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hellishly, horrible, horribly, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, internecine, intolerably, killing, lamentably, lethal, livid, lurid, macabre, malign, malignant, miserably, mortal, mortuary, nakedly, openly, painfully, pale, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, piteously, sadly, savage, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, to the death, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, uncanny, unconscionably, unduly, unearthly, unpardonably, virulent, wan, wasted, weird, woefully
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