Entry Word: deathly

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 of, relating to, or suggestive of death <his deathly pallor suggested that any attempt to find a pulse would be futile>

Synonyms dead, deathlike, mortal

Related Words ghostly, phantom, spectral; inactive, inert, inoperative, lifeless, quiescent, still; macabre; baleful, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, murderous, pestilent

Near Antonyms active, alive, living; animated, energetic, lively, vigorous, vivacious; hale, healthy, hearty, robust, sound

2 likely to cause or capable of causing death <smallpox is one deathly disease that medical science has been able to conquer> — see deadly