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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
| Synonyms: | appalling, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
| Antonyms: | animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |