different between deathy vs death

English

Etymology

death +? -y

Adjective

deathy (comparative more deathy, superlative most deathy)

1. (obsolete) Relating to death.
   • 1829, Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay, Canto IV, XXXVIII, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 569,

     The sunny hue that tinged her cheek was gone, / A deathy paleness settled in its stead;

   • 1836, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, First Series, 1840, page 83,

     The deathy stillness of a town, and the barred windows, and shut shops, and empty streets, and great long lines of big brick buildins,^[sic] look melancholy.

   • 1869 February, Justin McCarthy, My Enemy's Daughter, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon (editor), Belgravia, Volume 7, page 186,

     I heard a lady near whom I happened to sit one evening in a river-steamer describe it to a companion, when its swampy flats came into sight, as "a deathy place." The phrase was picturesque, effective and very appropriate. It did look a deathy place; but it had the advantages — to me supreme — of being very cheap, and of having easy access to the river, and therefore to town.

2. Misspelling of deathly.

Anagrams

• the day, they'da

English

Alternative forms

• deth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English deeth, from Old English d?aþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (compare West Frisian dead, Dutch dood, German Tod, Swedish död), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ówtus. Equivalent to die +? -th. More at die.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?th, IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??
• (West Country) IPA^(key): /di??/
• Homophones: debt (with th-stopping), deaf (with th-fronting)

Noun

death (countable and uncountable, plural deaths)

2. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
   1. Execution (in the judicial sense).

3. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English d?aþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male ???????? (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics.
4. (the death) The collapse or end of something.
   • 1983, Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand (page 90)

     He may even find himself being blamed if the project dies a quick and horrible death at the box office or is unceremoniously axed by the network.

   1. (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).

5. (figuratively) Spiritual lifelessness.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:death

Derived terms

Pages starting with “death”.

Translations

See also

Further reading

• The Definition of Death - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Anagrams

• Theda, hated