— deathliness , n.
/deth"lee/ , adj.
1. causing death; deadly; fatal.
2. like death: a deathly silence.
3. of, pertaining to, or indicating death; morbid: a deathly odor from the sepulcher.
adv.
4. in the manner of death.
5. very; utterly: deathly afraid.
[ bef. 1000; ME dethlich, OE deathlic. See DEATH, -LY ]