adjective
1.
causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
2.
aiming to kill or destroy; implacable: a deadly enemy.
3.
like death: a deadly pallor.
4.
excruciatingly boring: The dinner party was absolutely deadly.
5.
EXPANDexcessive; inordinate: deadly haste.
6.
COLLAPSEextremely accurate: Annie Oakley was a deadly shot.
adverb
7.
in a manner resembling or suggesting death: deadly pale.
8.
excessively; completely: deadly dull.
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Word Origin & History
deadly
O.E. deadlic "mortal," also "causing death," from dead (q.v.). Meaning "having the capacity to kill" is from late 14c.
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