Associations to the word «Deadly»

Wiktionary

DEADLY, adjective. (obsolete) Subject to death; mortal.
DEADLY, adjective. Causing death; lethal.
DEADLY, adjective. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
DEADLY, adjective. (by extension) Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
DEADLY, adjective. (informal) Very boring.
DEADLY, adjective. (informal) Excellent, awesome, cool.
DEADLY, adverb. (obsolete) Fatally, mortally.
DEADLY, adverb. In a way which suggests death.
DEADLY, adverb. Extremely.
DEADLY AMANITA, noun. Fly agaric
DEADLY AMANITAS, noun. Plural of deadly amanita
DEADLY DIAMOND OF DEATH, noun. (computing) (programming) (humorous) The diamond problem.
DEADLY EMBRACE, noun. (computing) deadlock
DEADLY EMBRACES, noun. Plural of deadly embrace
DEADLY NIGHTSHADE, noun. The plant Atropa belladonna, a perennial shrub of the nightshade family that contains high concentrations of the alkaloid atropine which can be deadly if taken in excess.
DEADLY NIGHTSHADES, noun. Plural of deadly nightshade
DEADLY SIN, noun. Any of the seven deadly sins - anger, greed/avarice, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth
DEADLY SINS, noun. Plural of deadly sin

Dictionary definition

DEADLY, adverb. As if dead.
DEADLY, adverb. (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous".
DEADLY, adjective. Causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness".
DEADLY, adjective. Of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection".
DEADLY, adjective. Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite".
DEADLY, adjective. Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins".
DEADLY, adjective. Exceedingly harmful.
DEADLY, adjective. (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne