All deathly synonyms
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D d adjective deathly
- deep — If something is deep, it extends a long way down from the ground or from the top surface of something.
- stony — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- tomblike — an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
- fatal — causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
adverb deathly
- intensely — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
- intensively — of, relating to, or characterized by intensity: intensive questioning.
- absolutely — Absolutely means totally and completely.
- totally — wholly; entirely; completely.
adj deathly
- appalling — Something that is appalling is so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- grim — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- haggard — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- macabre — gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
- pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- pallid — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- wan — of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
- wasted — not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents.
- deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
- defunctive — of or relating to the dead; funereal.
- deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
- intense — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
- lethal — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- mortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- noxious — harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
- pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
- terrible — distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
- pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
- mortiferous — deadly; fatal.