| Main Entry: | deadly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing end of life |
Synonyms: |
baleful, baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, cannibalistic, carcinogenic, cruel, dangerous, death-dealing, deathly, deleterious, destroying, destructive, fatal, grim, harmful, homicidal, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruthless, savage, slaying, suicidal, toxic, unrelenting, venomous, violent, virulent |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
Antonyms: |
animating, energizing, harmless, healthful, healthy, invigorating, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | deadly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
Synonyms: |
ashen, corpselike, dead, deadened, deathful, deathlike, deathly, ghastly, pallid, wan, white |
Antonyms: |
lively |
| Main Entry: | baleful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing |
Synonyms: |
calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful |
| Notes: | something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful |
Antonyms: |
advantageous, auspicious, favorable, good, helping, promising |
| Main Entry: | baneful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruinous, injurious |
Synonyms: |
baleful, calamitous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, disastrous, evil, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malefic, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous, wicked |
Antonyms: |
advantageous, beneficial, beneficient, fortunate, helpful, lucky |
| Main Entry: | calamitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disastrous; tragic |
Synonyms: |
adverse, afflictive, blighting, cataclysmic, catastrophic, deadly, deplorable, devastating, dire, fatal, grievous, harmful, heartbreaking, lamentable, messy, pernicious, regrettable, ruinous, unfavorable, unfortunate, woeful |
Antonyms: |
blessed, comforting, favorable, fortunate, happy, joyous, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | contagious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | communicable |
Synonyms: |
catching, deadly, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, impartible, infectious, inoculable, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, spreading, taking, transmissible, transmittable |
Antonyms: |
noncommunicable |
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
Synonyms: |
alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, jeopardous, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, parlous, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
Antonyms: |
careful, guarded, safe, secure, unhazardous, untroubled |
| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fatal |
Synonyms: |
deadly, extreme, intense, lethal, mortal, mortiferous, noxious, pestilent, pestilential, terrible |
Antonyms: |
benign, harmless, healthful, healthy, life-giving, strengthening |
| Main Entry: | destructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, devastating |
Synonyms: |
annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, extirpative, fatal, fell, harmful, hurtful, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, ruinous, slaughterous, suicidal, toxic, venomous, wrackful, wreckful |
Antonyms: |
aiding, assisting, building, creative, helpful, productive |
| Main Entry: | grave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crucial, dangerous |
Synonyms: |
acute, afflictive, consequential, critical, deadly, destructive, dire, exigent, fatal, fell, grievous, hazardous, heavy*, important, killing*, life-and-death, major, momentous, of great consequence, ominous, perilous, pressing, serious, severe, significant, threatening, ugly, urgent, vital, weighty |
Antonyms: |
inconsequential, trivial, unimportant |