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lethal

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of lethal

likely to cause or capable of causing death

we were lucky that the snake's venom wasn't lethal, and our friend turned out to be all right

Synonyms of lethal

baleful, deadly, deathly, fatal, fell, killer, mortal, murderous, pestilent, terminal, vital

Words Related to lethal

baneful, deleterious, destructive, harmful, injurious, noxious, pernicious, truculent

infectious, infective, pestilential, poisonous, sublethal, toxic, virulent

dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, ugly, unhealthy, unsound

bloody, internecine, sanguinary, sanguine

Near Antonyms of lethal

beneficial, restorative, salubrious, salutary

alleviative, corrective, curative, remedial, tonic

advantageous, beneficial, useful

nonpoisonous, nontoxic, safe

Antonyms of lethal

healthful, healthy, nonfatal, nonlethal, wholesome

Synonym Discussion of lethal

deadly, mortal, fatal, lethal mean causing or capable of causing death. deadly applies to an established or very likely cause of death.

- a deadly disease

mortal implies that death has occurred or is inevitable.

- a mortal wound

fatal stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction.

- fatal consequences

lethal applies to something that is bound to cause death or exists for the destruction of life.

- lethal gas

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