Crossword clues for deadlier
deadlier
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: deadly)
WordNet
See deadly
adv. as if dead [syn: lifelessly]
as if produced by death; "deadly pale"; "a deadly paralytic stroke"
(used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" [syn: madly, insanely, deucedly, devilishly]
adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn: deathly, mortal]
of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection" [syn: lethal]
extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" [syn: venomous, virulent]
involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" [syn: mortal(a)]
exceedingly harmful [syn: baneful, pernicious, pestilent]
(of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
Usage examples of "deadlier".
I perceive a deadlier danger now, and I think we must all unite to face it.
Each feared that the other would make deadlier things to destroy them.
This must be one of the deadlier of the preparations that the wizards play with.
Armored as they were, their weapons of deadlier reach than the blades of men, the bufanoid killers tore through the line of soldiers like blood-lusting devils.
An army measured not by bravery, but by something far deadlier, something unopposable: hunger.
He drove other, deadlier matters out of his thoughts and gave her the springtime look.