| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
Synonyms: |
appalling, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
Antonyms: |
animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |