adj. Function: adjective
1 causing or causative of death FF1C; a deadly disease FF1E;
Synonyms: deathly, fatal, lethal, mortal, mortiferous, pestilent, pestilential; compare PERNICIOUS
Related Words: destroying, destructive; killing, slaying; internecine; baneful, noxious, pernicious; poisonous, toxic, virulent
Contrasted Words: healthful, healthy, wholesome; advantageous, beneficial, restorative, sanative
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Synonyms: PERNICIOUS , baneful, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential
Contrasted Words: harmless, innocuous, inoffensive, unoffending
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Synonyms: DEATHLY 1, corpselike, corpsy, dead, deadened, deathful, deathlike