Crossword clues for deathly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deathly \Death"ly\, a. Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
Deathly \Death"ly\, adv. Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English deaþlic "mortal" (see death). Meaning "deadly" is from late 12c.; that of "death-like" is from 1560s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death. 2 fatal, causing death. 3 extreme. adv. 1 In a way that resembles death. 2 extremely, dreadfully.
WordNet
Usage examples of "deathly".
Robbie spoke solemn words of farewell to the deathly pale axman known as the Nail.
Sake, the deathly pale axman known as the Nail, nodded but did not speak.
A few cabins had yellow lights glimmering inside, but the village was deathly quiet.
I drove through the deathly still streets of Chincoteague, coming-- it seemed like hours, though it was only a matter of minutes -- to the small cemetery on Church Street.
Administration hospital ward, bleak and white and deathly, badgered by psychiatrists and gerontologists, prodded and tested and questioned by nurses and internes and specialists, a spectacle for visiting officials, newspapermen, article writers, actuaries, lawyers, press agents, theatrical producers, sapped like an old tree torn up by the roots.
All the lush greenstuff seemed to be issuing its sap, till the air was deathly, sickly with the smell of greenness.
Davies began to fear for the safety of his engines, and the Kroo boys that made the majority of the crew were deathly sick.
This was the makings of legend: Luis, deathly thin and pale, blood-spattered, while his Tiger was the most powerful weapon on the battlefield.
Shortly after Martinmas, do not be surprised to hear that I am deathly ill and may be dying.
Heart of darkness the deathly pallor of Brussels that Marlow finds on his return from the Belgian Congo, but with respect to the monstrous, unbounded overabundance of life in the colony, the sterile environment of Europe seems comforting.
The fire was still pallid in the interior of his hands, and now he breathed on them as if to blow it into life, and it grew round each hand as if he had put on gloves of pale light, a light more like that of the false Tetragrammaton but not so deathly.
And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelessness and despair, such as I had now to pass through once more.
His face was a skull papered with deathly white skin, shading to black under his bladelike cheekbones.
The silly thing was deathly scared of Papa, all the darkies are, though how they hear these things I do not know.
She closed her eyes and saw Olivia sitting in a chair, deathly serious.