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| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
| Synonyms: | appalling, cadaverous, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
| Antonyms: | animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |
| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fatal |
| Synonyms: | deadly, extreme, intense, lethal, mortal, noxious, pestilent, terrible, mortiferous, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | benign, harmless, healthful, healthy, life-giving, strengthening |
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| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathly, emaciated, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, sallow, shadowy, sick, spectral, thin, wan, wasted, bag of bones, deathlike, exsanguinous, peaky, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
| Main Entry: | lethal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly |
| Synonyms: | baleful, dangerous, deathly, destructive, devastating, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malignant, mortal, mortuary, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, poisonous, virulent, mortiferous, necrotic, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | beneficial, harmless, helpful, life-giving |
| Main Entry: | macabre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eerie; deathlike |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, deathly, dreadful, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, lurid, morbid, offensive, scary, spooky, terrible, unearthly, weird, horrid, spookish |
| Antonyms: | common, living, normal |
| Main Entry: | motionless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, not moving |
| Synonyms: | dead, deathly, firm, fixed, frozen, immobile, inanimate, inert, lifeless, numb, palsied, paralyzed, petrified, quiescent, quiet, spellbound, stable, stagnant, standing, static, stationary, steadfast, still, torpid, unmoved, unmoving, apoplectic, at a standstill, at rest, becalmed, deadlocked, halted, immotile, stalled, stock-still, transfixed, unmovable |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, lively, mobile, moving |
| Main Entry: | sepulchral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, cheerless, dark, deathly, dismal, dreary, forlorn, funereal, grave, hollow, morbid, mournful, obscure, somber |
| Main Entry: | still |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, motionless, quiet |
| Synonyms: | closed, deathly, fixed, halcyon, inert, lifeless, noiseless, pacific, peaceful, placid, restful, sealed, serene, silent, smooth, soundless, stable, stagnant, static, stationary, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, untroubled, at rest, buttoned up, clammed up, close-mouthed, deathlike, deathly quiet, deathly still, hushed, hushful, stock-still, unstirring, whist |
| Antonyms: | agitated, moving, stirred, unquiet |
| Main Entry: | tragic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | catastrophic, very bad |
| Synonyms: | adverse, appalling, awful, calamitous, deadly, deathly, deplorable, desolate, destructive, dire, disastrous, doleful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, forlorn, grievous, grim, hapless, harrowing, heartbreaking, ill-fated, lamentable, miserable, mournful, painful, pathetic, pitiful, ruinous, sad, shocking, sorrowful, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched, anguished, cataclysmic, crushing, heart-rending, ill-starred, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, blessed, good, happy, successful |
| Main Entry: | deadly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing end of life |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, cannibalistic, cruel, dangerous, deathly, deleterious, destroying, destructive, fatal, grim, harmful, homicidal, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malignant, mortal, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, ruthless, savage, suicidal, toxic, unrelenting, venomous, violent, virulent, carcinogenic, death-dealing, mortiferous, pestilential, slaying |
| Antonyms: | harmless, healthful, healthy, invigorating, wholesome, animating, energizing |
| Main Entry: | fatal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly, lethal |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, calamitous, deathly, destructive, disastrous, fateful, final, ill-fated, incurable, inevitable, killing, malignant, mortal, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, poisonous, ruinous, terminal, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, ill-starred, malefic, mortiferous, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | healthful, nourishing, vital, wholesome, life-giving |
| Main Entry: | mortal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly |
| Synonyms: | bitter, deathly, destructive, dire, ending, extreme, fatal, grave, great, grievous, grim, intense, killing, last, lethal, malignant, merciless, monstrous, murderous, noxious, pestilent, poisonous, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, severe, terminal, terrible, unrelenting, death-dealing, mortiferous, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | invigorating, permanent, refreshing, lifegiving |
| Main Entry: | deadly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
| Synonyms: | ashen, dead, deathly, ghastly, pallid, wan, white, corpselike, deadened, deathful, deathlike |
| Antonyms: | lively |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | killing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
killing, red, bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody, cruentous, cynegetic, deadly, deathly, ensanguined, fatal, gory, halieutic, homicidal, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, piscatorial, piscatory, sanguinolent, sicarious, slaughterous, sporting, suicidal, unhealthy, venatic
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