ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Deadly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈdɛdli/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Deadly is an adjective meaning Causing death; lethal.

Meaning

Causing death; lethal.

Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
(informal) Very boring.
(informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
In a way which suggests death.
(obsolete, rare) Subject to death; mortal.
(obsolete) Fatally, mortally.

deadly enemies

❧ That when the iournay / of this dedly life / My ſely ghoſte / hath finiſhed and thence[…]

And next we find / Ourselves in Heaven. Even man's deadly life / Can be there, by God's leave.

[…]diſmount thy tucke, be yare in thy preparation, for thy aſſaylant is quick, skilfull and deadly.

Depending on context, synonyms include pernicious, virulent, harmful, venomous, noxious, mortal.

Related dictionary entries include mortal, lethal, deathly, pestilent, harmful, pernicious.

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