English Dictionary

deadly

/ˈdɛd.li/

adj

(obsolete, rare) Subject to death; mortal. / Causing death; lethal. / Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile. / Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).

The deadly disease spread rapidly throughout the village.

意味（1）

(obsolete, rare) Subject to death; mortal.

[…]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.

意味（2）

Causing death; lethal.

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

意味（3）

Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.

deadly enemies

意味（4）

Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).

Its deadly aim at vast distances, which condition of the mechanical power brought has made it the dread of the sepoys, who term it the gun that kills without making any sound, contrasts strangely with the performances of Brown Bess of old, which at any range beyond a hundred yards was so uncertain in its aim that it has been calculated that the soldier shot away the weight in lead of every man that he hit.

意味（5）

(informal) Very boring.

“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,[…]!”

意味（6）

(informal) Excellent, awesome, cool.