1. Causing or capable of causing death
   "a deadly enemy";
   - deathly, mortal
    
2. (of weapons, substances, or conditions) causing death
   "deadly poisons";
   - lethal
    
3. Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
   "deadly snakes";
   - venomous, virulent
    
4. (theology) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
   "the seven deadly sins";
   - mortal
    
5. Exceedingly harmful
   "The deadly virus spread rapidly";
   - baneful [archaic], pernicious, pestilent
    
6. (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
   "The deadly epidemic claimed thousands of lives"
    
7. [informal] So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
   "The lecture was deadly boring";
   - boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum [informal], irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, unamusing, draggy [informal], mind-numbing

1. As if dead
   "The room was deadly quiet";
   - lifelessly
    
2. (used as intensives) excessively
   "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest";
   - madly, insanely, deucedly [informal], devilishly

Derived forms: deadliest, deadlier

See also: fatal, irremissible, killing, lame, lameo [informal], meh [informal], noxious, samey [Brit, informal], toxic, uninspiring, uninteresting, unpardonable, virulent

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