deadly |
1. adj. (obsolete) Subject to death; mortal. | |
2. adj. Causing death; lethal. | |
3. adj. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile. | |
deadly enemies | |
4. adj. (by extension) Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.). | |
5. adj. (informal) Very boring. | |
6. adj. (informal) Excellent, awesome, cool. | |
7. adv. (obsolete) Fatally, mortally. | |
8. adv. In a way which suggests death. | |
Her face suddenly became deadly white. | |
9. adv. Extremely. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
destructive |
1. adj. Causing destruction; damaging. | |
2. adj. Causing breakdown or disassembly. | |
Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy. | |
3. adj. (computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change. | |
Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not. | |