Meaning

6 senses
  1. Causing death; lethal.

    tödlich

    смерте́льныйsmertélʹnyj, уби́йственныйubíjstvennyj, смертоно́сныйsmertonósnyj

    смерте́льнийsmertélʹnyj, смертоно́снийsmertonósnyj

    of an instrument of certain death

  2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.

    deadly enemies

  3. Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).

  4. (informal)Very boring.

  5. (Ireland, Newfoundland, informal)Excellent, awesome, cool.

    великоле́пныйvelikolépnyj

  6. (obsolete, rare)Subject to death; mortal.

    causing or capable of causing death

Examples

168 sentences
  1. The deadliest attack was on October 20th.

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  2. He fell a victim to a deadly disease.

    ruОн пал жертвой смертельной болезни.

    deEr fiel einer tödlichen Krankheit zum Opfer.

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  3. Envy is one of the seven deadly sins.

    ruЗависть — это один из семи смертных грехов.

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  4. Tom was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.

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  5. Tom is deadly serious.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
lethal:
Русский
By meaning 2
lethal:
excellent, awesome, cool:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
lethal:

Origin

From Middle English dedly, dedlych, dedlich, from Old English dēadlīċ (adjective), from Pr

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. Cognate with Saterland Frisian dodelk (“deadly”), West Frisian deadlik (“deadly”), Dutch dodelijk (“deadly”), German tödlich (“deadly”), Swedish dödlig (“deadly, fatal, mortal”), Icelandic dauðlegur (“mortal”).

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Forms

deadlier/more deadly, deadliest/most deadly
Comparativedeadlier / more deadly Lesson
Superlativedeadliest / most deadly Lesson

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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