deathly
/ˈdɛθli
/adjective (deathlier, deathliest)
1Resembling or suggestive of death: a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table [as submodifier]: his face was deathly pale...
- The red eyes were bright and swollen from crying, and the white skin was deathly pale from the cold.
- A kind of deathly, phony calm descends at moments like that.
- Friday's encounters had been played out in front of banks of empty seats and a deathly hush.
Synonyms
deathlike, corpse-like, cadaverous, ghostly, ghostlike, ghastly, grim, haggard;
ashen, chalky, chalk-white, white, pale, pallid, bloodless, colourless, wan, anaemic, pasty, sickly, drained, sapped
informal like death warmed up, peaky
rare etiolated
1.1 archaic or literary Relating to or causing death: an eagle carrying a snake in its deathly grasp...
- She spun around and gave him a glare so deathly that he turned pale and blacked out.
- I was shattered to see how the disease had extended its deathly grip.
- True artistic integrity is stultified by the deathly embrace of marketing.
- girder
- girdle
- girdled lizard
- girdler
- girdle-tailed lizard
- gird (up) one's loins (or gird oneself for something)
- girl
- girl band
- girl-boy
- girlcott
- girl crush
- girldom
- girleen
- girlery
- girlf
- girl Friday
- girlfriend
- girlfully
- girl group
- Girl Guide
- Girl Guide biscuits
- Girl Guider
- Girl Guides Association
- girl-guidey
- Girl Guiding