Deadly Synonyms and Antonyms

dĕdlē
Very tiresome
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. boring
  2. cadaverous
  3. deathlike
  4. deathly
  5. tedious
  6. ghastly
  7. mortal
  8. ghostlike
  9. ghostly
  10. tiresome
  11. spectral
Antonyms:
  1. lively
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Extremely destructive or harmful
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. baneful
  2. pernicious
  3. pestilent
  4. virulent
  5. malignant
  6. noxious
  7. venomous
  8. pestilential
(used as intensives) extremely
(Adverb)
Synonyms:
  1. lifelessly
  2. madly
  3. insanely
  4. deucedly
  5. devilishly
Causing or tending to cause death:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fatal
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Words Related to Deadly

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Deadly Sentence Examples

  • Why so seeming fast, but deadly slow?

  • A rifle cracked, piercing the silence with deadly import.

  • The old Christian eschatology is set aside; no one has dealt such deadly blows to Chiliasm and Christian apocalypticism as Origen.

  • He got his satchel from the buggy and, opening it, took out two deadly looking revolvers that made the children shrink back in alarm just to look at.

  • Glancing over his shoulder at his advancing pursuer, he knew he'd have to drop far enough and rapidly enough to pass Shipton before the killer could swing out with his deadly ax.

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