deathly

4 definitions found

deathly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Deathly \Death"ly\, a.
     Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
     [1913 Webster]

  Deathly \Death"ly\, adv.
     Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
     [1913 Webster]

deathly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  deathly
      adv 1: to a degree resembling death; "he was deathly pale"
      adj 1: having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly
             pallor" [syn: deathlike, deathly]
      2: causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a
         deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn:
         deadly, deathly, mortal]

deathly - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "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