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deathful

deathful adjective: involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly.

Adjective

deathful (comparative more deathful, superlative most deathful)

  1. Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly.
    • Five hapless swains with soft allusive smiles / The harlot meshes in her deathful toils […].1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 111
  2. Resembling or pertaining to death; deathly.
  3. (literary) Subject to death; mortal.

Forms of deathful

comparativemore deathful
superlativemost deathful

Origin of deathful

From Middle English dethful, equivalent to death + -ful.

Words formed from deathful

Questions about deathful

What does deathful mean?
Deathful means involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly.
What part of speech is deathful?
Deathful is an adjective.

Words near deathful in the dictionary

  1. deathfear
  2. deathfic
  3. deathfics
  4. deathfluencer
  5. deathfluencers
  6. deathful
  7. deathfully
  8. deathfulness
  9. deathgrind
  10. deathgrip
  11. deathgrips

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