Deathly

Synonyms for "deathly" (129 found)

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Closest matches (26)

Adjective(3 words)

a la mortabominably agonizingly appalling awfully baldly balefully baneful bitterly black blatantly blue brashly brutal cadaverous confoundedly corpselike cruelly damnably dead

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deadened deadlydeath dealing

Strong matches (39)

death-bringing deathful deathlikedeathly paledestructive deucedly distressingly dolorously dreadful dreadfully eerie egregiously excessively excruciatingly exorbitantly extravagantly fatal feral flagrantly frightfully

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ghastly ghostlike ghostly grievously grisly gruesome haggard hellishly horrible horribly

Adjective(7 words)

deathlike deep dreadfully extremely fatal grimly hauntingly

Adverb(2 words)

exceedingly extremely

Related words (64)

improperly inexcusably infernally inordinately internecine intolerably killing lamentably lethal livid lurid macabre malign malignant miserably mortal mortuary murderous nakedly openly

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painfully pale pernicious pestilent pestilential piteously sadly savage shatteringly shockinglysomething awfulsomething fiercesorely staggeringly still terriblyto the deathtorturously unashamedly unbearably uncanny unconscionably unduly unearthly unpardonably virulent wan wasted weird woefully

Adjective(12 words)

lethal morbidly mortal ominously pallid profound sepulchralsepulchral atmosphereterribly utter utterly wan

Adverb(2 words)

super whopping

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

8 entries

appearance deathdegree adverbdegree modifierfigurative adverbintensity modifierlethalitymood adverb

More specific

17 entries

ashen bleakly deadly deep extremely fatal grimly hauntingly hugely lethal ominously pallid profound profoundly terribly utter

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Collocations

8 entries

deathly afraiddeathly feverdeathly illdeathly paledeathly pallordeathly quietdeathly silencedeathly still

Inflections

2 entries

deathlier deathliest

Derivations

2 entries

death deathliness

similar

2 entries

dead fatal

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

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Her deathly paleness is due to long illness.

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Hector's uncommonly brash and outspoken today. He's usually deathly quiet.

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He was deathly afraid of Barbies.

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I’m deathly afraid of turning left onto that street.

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