adjective, adverb
adjective (deadlier, deadliest)
HELPNOTE More deadly and deadliest are the usual forms. You can also use most deadly.
1 causing or likely to cause death:
a deadly weapon / disease * deadly poison * The cobra is one of the world's deadliest snakes. * The terrorists have chosen to play a deadly game with the civilian population. * the seven deadly sins (= for which you could be sent to HELL)
2 [onlybeforenoun] extreme; complete:
I'm in deadly earnest. * We sat in deadly silence. * They are deadly enemies (= will always remain enemies, and are full of hatred for each other).
3 extremely effective, so that no defence is possible:
His aim is deadly (= so accurate that he can kill easily). * It was the deadly striker's 11th goal of the season.
4 (BrE, informal) very boring:
The lecture was absolutely deadly.
This entry for deadly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is deadly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, deadly is tagged as adverb.
Does deadly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — deadly appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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