Word.ws English Dictionary

death-defying

death-defying adjective: very perilous; involving a lot of danger.

Adjective

death-defying (comparative more death-defying, superlative most death-defying)

  1. Very perilous; involving a lot of danger.
    • Mature might not have been in on the singing, but he does get to end the movie in fine style with a spectacular helicopter chase at an abandoned airbase, where we witness a death-defying stunt as the helicopter flies through an open hangar.2012, James McKay, The Films of Victor Mature (Chapter "The Las Vegas Story")

Forms of death-defying

comparativemore death-defying
superlativemost death-defying

Questions about death-defying

What does death-defying mean?
Death-defying means very perilous; involving a lot of danger.
What part of speech is death-defying?
Death-defying is an adjective.

Words near death-defying in the dictionary

  1. death-beds
  2. death-come-quickly
  3. death-damp
  4. death-damps
  5. death-dealing
  6. death-defying
  7. death-doom
  8. death-fire
  9. death-fires
  10. death-grip
  11. death-hunter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: death-defying (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “death-defying.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/death-defying. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.