deadly
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Is deadly a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete, rare) Subject to death; mortal.Examples: "[…]he ſuffred hym ſelfe to be made mortall and dedly, that innocent & gyltles in hym ſelfe: he myght be ſlayne & deye for the gylty man."; "❧ That when the iournay / of this dedly life / My ſely ghoſte / hath finiſhed and thence[…]"; "And next we find / Ourselves in Heaven. Even man's deadly life / Can be there, by God's leave."obsoleterare
2. (informal) Very boring.Examples: "“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,[…]!”"; "“Then my father died. He left me very badly off. I had to go and live with some old aunts in Yorkshire.” She shuddered. “You will understand me when I say that it was a deadly life for a girl brought up as I had been. The narrowness, the deadly monotony of it, almost drove me mad.”"; "Now, at school, I was forced to sit in classes, to take notes and exams, to use textbooks that were flat, impersonal, deadly."informal
3. (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.IrelandNewfoundlandinformal
adv (English)
1. (obsolete) Fatally, mortally.Examples: "[P]erceiving himſelfe deadly wounded by a ſhot received in his body, being by his men perſwaded to come off and retire himſelfe from out the throng, anſwered, he would not now ſo neere his end, beginne to turne his face from his enemie[…]"obsolete
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