deathful
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English dethful, equivalent to death + -ful.
Adjective
editdeathful (comparative more deathful, superlative most deathful)
- Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly. [from 13th c.]
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 111:
- Five hapless swains with soft allusive smiles / The harlot meshes in her deathful toils […] .
- Resembling or pertaining to death; deathly. [from 15th c.]
- (literary) Subject to death; mortal. [from 17th c.]