deadly
Causing death; lethal.
Adjective 4 meanings
Causing death; lethal.
Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
“deadly enemies”
Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
Very boring.
Adverb 2 meanings
In a way which suggests death.
“Her face suddenly became deadly white.”
Extremely, incredibly.
Etymology
From Middle English dedly, dedlych, dedlich, from Old English dēadlīċ (adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *dauþalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dauþalīkaz (“deadly”, literally “deathly”). By surface analysis, dead + -ly.
DEADLY at a glance
DEADLY has 6 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (D 2 + E 1 + A 1 + D 2 + L 1 + Y 4) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,394 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with deadly
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- DEARLY10
- DEAFLY13
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