[syn: deadly, deathly, mortal]
ADVERB (1)
1. to a degree resembling death;
- Example: "he was deathly pale"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Deathly \Death"ly\, adv.
Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Deathly \Death"ly\, a.
Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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