lethally

In killing fashion

Lethally means in a way that causes or is capable of causing death: The snake's venom is lethally potent, He was lethally injected.

Extended uses describe anything devastatingly effective: lethally accurate criticism, a lethally charming con artist.

deadly

fatally

With lethal outcome

murderously · destructively · ruinously · catastrophically · devastatingly · exterminating · perniciously · banefully · balefully · doom

violent

brutally

In a cruel manner

ruthlessly · mercilessly · bloodthirstily · aggressively · murderously · pitilessly · cutthroat · assassin · killer · hostilely

toxic

poisonously

In a toxic manner

virulently · cyanide · arsenic · ricin · sarin · botulinum · neurotoxin · pesticide · biohazard · pathogen

dangerous

hazardously

In unsafe manner

precariously · ominously · malignantly · critically · gravely · severely · acutely

Opposites
harm potential

lethallyharmlessly

Without causing damage

innocuously · safely · benignly · therapeutically · wholesomely

Phrases
Family

lethal, lethality, nonlethal, non-lethal, sublethal

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13