deadly
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
causing or capable of causing death
a fatal accident
Related & opposite
- death derivation
- deadliness derivation
- fatal similar to
Sense 2 adverb
as if dead
Related & opposite
Sense 3 adjective
of an instrument of certain death
deadly poisons
Related & opposite
- deadliness derivation
- fatal similar to
Sense 4 adverb
(used as intensives) extremely
she was madly in love
Related & opposite
- intensifier domain usage
Sense 5 adjective
extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
venomous snakes
Related & opposite
- deadliness derivation
- virulence derivation
- venom derivation
- toxic similar to
Sense 6 adjective
involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
the seven deadly sins
Related & opposite
- deadliness derivation
- theology domain topic
- unpardonable similar to
Sense 7 adjective
exceedingly harmful
Related & opposite
- perniciousness derivation
- deadliness derivation
- pestilence derivation
- noxious similar to
Sense 8 adjective
(of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
Related & opposite
- deadliness derivation
- virulent similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | death |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | deadliness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | fatal |
| 2 | derived from | Related & opposite | lifeless |
| 2 | derived from | Related & opposite | dead |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | deadliness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | fatal |
| 4 | domain usage | Related & opposite | intensifier |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | deadliness |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | virulence |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | venom |
| 5 | similar to | Related & opposite | toxic |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | deadliness |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | theology |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | unpardonable |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | perniciousness |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | deadliness |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | pestilence |
| 7 | similar to | Related & opposite | noxious |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | deadliness |
| 8 | similar to | Related & opposite | virulent |