Another word for deadly
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Adjective
Causing or tending to cause death
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of life:
- Necessary to the continuation of life; life-sustaining:
- Used or done on a living cell or tissue:
- Liable or subject to death; not immortal:
- Of or relating to humans as being subject to death:
- Causing death; fatal:
- Causing or capable of causing death:
- Extremely harmful; devastating:
- Causing or capable of causing death.
- Causing ruin or destruction; disastrous:
- Of decisive importance; fateful:
- Of, resembling, or characteristic of death:
- Causing death; fatal.
- In the manner of death.
See also:Gruesomely suggestive of ghosts or death
- Of or resembling a specter; ghostly.
- Of, relating to, or produced by a spectrum.
- Of, relating to, or resembling a ghost, a wraith, or an apparition; spectral.
- Of or relating to the soul or spirit; spiritual.
- Causing shock, revulsion, or horror; terrifying:
- Resembling a ghost; pale or pallid.
- Extremely unpleasant or bad:
- Of, resembling, or characteristic of death:
- Causing death; fatal.
- In the manner of death.
- Resembling death.
- Suggestive of death; corpselike:
- Of corpselike pallor; pallid:
- Emaciated; gaunt:
See also:Extremely destructive or harmful
- Characterized by, causing, or promoting the rapid onset of severe illness. Used of a disease or toxin.
- Capable of causing disease by aggressively interfering with the immune system of the host. Used of a pathogen.
- Extremely hostile or malicious:
- Pestilent.
- Causing or likely to cause epidemic disease:
- Infectious or epidemic:
- Tending to cause death; deadly.
- Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly:
- Causing great harm; destructive:
- Harmful to living things; injurious to health:
- Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting:
- Tending to metastasize:
- Virulent or threatening to life:
- Having or showing ill will; malicious:
- Causing harm, ruin, or death; harmful.
- Portending harm; ominous.
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Another word for deadly
Modifier
Causing death
- Impossible to avoid or prevent; certain to happen.
- Invariably occurring or appearing; predictable:
- Causing or intending to cause damage, injury, or death, often when involving great force:
- Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
- Caused by unexpected force or injury rather than by natural causes:
- Causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.
- Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly:
- Causing great harm; destructive:
- Causing harm, ruin, or death; harmful.
- Portending harm; ominous.
- The act or action of causing death, as of a person.
- A sudden large profit:
- Causing or apt to cause death; fatal:
- Tending toward cannibalism.
- Eager to cause or see the shedding of blood.
- Characterized by violence or carnage:
- Considering or desiring to commit suicide.
- Relating to suicide:
- Dangerous to oneself or to one's interests; self-destructive or ruinous:
- Causing or tending to cause cancer.
- Producing or breeding infectious disease.
- Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease.
- Morally evil or deadly; pernicious.
- Pestilent.
- Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful:
- Offensive or insulting; hurtful:
- Characterized by, causing, or promoting the rapid onset of severe illness. Used of a disease or toxin.
- Capable of causing disease by aggressively interfering with the immune system of the host. Used of a pathogen.
- Extremely hostile or malicious:
- Of, at, relating to, or forming a limit, boundary, extremity, or end:
- Growing or appearing at the end of a stem, branch, stalk, or similar part.
- Of, at, relating to, or being the end of a section or series; final.
- Tending to metastasize:
- Virulent or threatening to life:
- Having or showing ill will; malicious:
- Portending evil; ominous:
- Harmful or malignant in intent or effect:
- Having a harmful effect; injurious:
- Secreting and transmitting venom:
- Full of or containing venom:
- Malicious; spiteful:
- Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous:
- Designed or tending to disprove or discredit:
- Harmful to living things; injurious to health:
- Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting:
- Stained with blood.
- Of, characteristic of, or containing blood.
- Accompanied by or giving rise to bloodshed:
- Of or relating to homicide.
- Capable of or conducive to homicide:
- Of, relating to, or caused by a toxin or other poison:
- Capable of causing injury or death, especially by chemical means; poisonous:
- Extremely risky or harmful, as a debt for which the borrower is in default and the collateral has lost so much value that its sale cannot cover the amount of the loan.
- Containing or being a poison:
- Capable of harming or killing by poison:
- Full of ill will; malicious or spiteful:
- Of, resembling, or characteristic of death:
- Causing death; fatal.
- In the manner of death.
- Liable or subject to death; not immortal:
- Of or relating to humans as being subject to death:
- Causing death; fatal:
- Capable of, guilty of, or intending murder:
- Characteristic of or giving rise to murder or bloodshed:
- Capable of devastating or overwhelming:
- Causing or capable of causing death:
- Extremely harmful; devastating:
- Causing or capable of causing death.
- Causing ruin or destruction; disastrous:
- Of decisive importance; fateful:
Antonyms:Very tiresome
- Causing fatigue or boredom, as from being unvarying or overly long; wearisome.
- Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.
- Moving or progressing very slowly.
- Uninteresting and tiresome; dull.
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Synonym Study
- Lethal is applied to that which in its nature or purpose is a cause of death a lethal weapon, a lethal dose
- Mortal implies that death has occurred or is about to occur and is applied to the immediate cause of death he has received a mortal blow
- Fatal implies the inevitability or actual occurrence of death or disaster a fatal disease, a fatal mistake
- Deadly is applied to a thing that can and probably (but not inevitably) will cause death a deadly poison
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