Definitions for deadly

deadly dead·ly

Spelling: [ded-lee]
IPA: /ˈdɛd li/

Deadly is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in deadly (addely).

Definitions for deadly

adverb

  1. in a manner resembling or suggesting death:
  2. excessively; completely:

adjective

  1. causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal:
  2. aiming to kill or destroy; implacable:
  3. like death:
  4. excruciatingly boring:
  5. excessive; inordinate:
  6. extremely accurate:

Origin of deadly

before 900; Middle English deedli(ch), Old English dēadlīce. See dead, -ly

Examples for deadly

The mosquito, quite ignored, would then have gone on in his deadly work.

A choice had been put before her in deadly earnest; she had refused to make one.

The comedian responded to the deadly attack on a French satirical magazine by renewing his recent criticisms of the Islamic faith.

Robin's pale, blank face had a sick look, a deadly smoothness.

Whatever the reason, and however absurd their beliefs may seem, American evangelicals are deadly serious.

One of its most deadly weapons is fatigue, or the simulation of fatigue.

Shortly after dawn, there was another outbreak of deadly force.

So, she went through the inferno of days and nights in a dreariness of suffering that was deadly.

Gunshots rang out in Paris this morning on a second day of deadly violence that has stunned the French capital.

They now claim that Amanda actually wielded the knife and struck the deadly blow, increasing her sentence to 28-and-a-half years.

Word Value for deadly
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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