Synonyms for lethal
ˈli θəllethal

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1. lethal

   Antonyms:
   invigorative, remedial, sanative, wholesome, restorative, vivifying, vital, genial

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1. deadly, lethaladjective

   of an instrument of certain death

   "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"

   Synonyms:
   mortal, deathly, baneful, venomous, pestilent, virulent, deadly, pernicious, mortal(a)

   Antonyms:
   nonfatal

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1. malignant

   Submitted by rinat on May 31, 2023  

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1. lethaladjective

   Synonyms:
   [Rare.] deadly, mortal, fatal

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1. List of paraphrases for "lethal":

   deadly, fatal, letal, mortal, murderous, case-fatality, life-threatening, murderer, homicidal

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1. Linda Thomas-Greenfield:

   We welcome the Chinese announcement that they want peace because that’s what we always want to pursue in situations like this. But we also have to be clear that if there are any thoughts and efforts by the Chinese and others to provide lethal support to the Russians in their brutal attack against Ukraine, that that is unacceptable.

2. Marty Carpenter:

   Those who voiced opposition to this bill are primarily arguing against capital punishment in general and that decision has already been made in our state, we regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated murder to merit the death penalty and we prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued. However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death warrant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch.

3. Sergei Lavrov:

   There are growing appeals in the West to support the Kiev policy of militarization, to pump Ukraine full with lethal weapons and to bring it into NATO, this position will only exacerbate the tragedy of Ukraine.

4. Roger Hallam:

   I want to fully acknowledge the unimaginable suffering caused by the Nazi Holocaust that led to all of Europe saying ‘never again,' but it is happening again, on a far greater scale and in plain sight. The global north is pumping lethal levels of CO2 into the atmosphere and simultaneously erecting ever greater barriers to immigration, turning whole regions of the world into death zones.

5. General Nagata:

   The US counterterrorism community has long held that the use of a biological agent of some kind for a major terrorist attack is not a matter of if, but when, the likelihood of a future terrorist using a highly potent, clandestinely produced, difficult to detect/identify/track, easily transportable and dispersible, and quite lethal biological weapon is rising significantly.