adjective
- resembling or suggesting death; extremely pale or still
- causing or likely to cause death; fatal
adverb
- extremely; to a degree suggesting death
Examples
- Her face turned deathly pale when she heard the news.
- The house was deathly quiet after everyone left.
- He was deathly afraid of spiders.
- The poison was deathly to anyone who consumed it.
- She remained deathly still during the entire procedure.
- The room fell into a deathly silence.
- His deathly grip on the rope saved his life.