Definition
deathful
adjective
- full of death; causing or involving death; deadly or fatal
Usage: archaic or literary; rarely used in modern English
Examples
- The deathful plague swept through the village in the 14th century.
- He faced a deathful wound that no physician could heal.
- The deathful silence of the abandoned cemetery unnerved the visitors.
- Medieval texts described deathful diseases with grim detail.