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Definition of Deathly
1. Adverb. To a degree resembling death. "He was deathly pale"
2. Adjective. Having the physical appearance of death. "A deathly pallor"
3. Adjective. Causing or capable of causing death. "A mortal illness"
Definition of Deathly
1. a. Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
2. adv. Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
Definition of Deathly
1. Adjective. Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death. ¹
2. Adjective. fatal, causing death ¹
3. Adjective. extreme ¹
4. Adverb. With reference to death ¹
5. Adverb. extremely, dreadfully ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deathly
1. fatal [adj] - See also: fatal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deathly
Literary usage of Deathly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience by Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1890)
"AFTER THE BATTLE — MT FIRST EXPERIENCE IN A MILITARY HOSPITAL — A deathly ...
Sights — Horrible Mutilation of the Men — A deathly Faintness came over me ..."
2. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael (1900)
"... FOR ROSE THOU rose deathly, deadly, swollen, Leave the udder of the white-footed
cow, Leave the udder of the spotted cow, Leave, leave that swelling, ..."
3. A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homoeopathy by Timothy Field Allen (1891)
"Vomiting of food and of sour or bitter liquid, with deathly nausea, ...
Evacuations like cholera, with deathly faintness, cold surface, irregular pulse. ..."
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