deathly

Modifies a noun

• pallor: She was standing with glaring eyes, parted lips, and a deathly pallor on her worn face.
• hush: There is always a deathly hush on the phone at this point.
• silence: There was a deathly silence, then, in the distance, I saw a brown tail disappear into the water.
• pale: He was deathly pale, yet he seemed fired with a hope; his eyes shone.
• quiet: The deathly quiet, iron barred windows of San Quentin.
• cold: It's June but deathly cold, fog wraps round the sea.

Modifying Another Word

• so: The complacency of Connecticut at the time was ready made to rail against, it was so deathly unoriginal and sticky with republican fear.
• still: I've actually done a tiny bit of work here today but it's still deathly quiet.