What is the superlative form of the word deadly?

Answer 1

Lets see if i understand the question...Superlative means "of the highest kind, quality or order. Surpassing all else or others.Supreme,Extreme. The utmost degree."

Soooo....it would seem to me that the Superlative form of dead would be to have died a hero or perhaps to turn into a spirtual being of some sort.

A strange question.

Answer:"dead" describes a state that is ungradable. Since superlatives are words that describe the "highest grade" of something, there is no superlative comparison for the word "dead". Answer:As previously stated by my esteemed colleagues, the superlative form refers to the highest or greatest degree. Perhaps "Annihilated" could be construed as a superlative form of dead. Answer:The superlative form of dead is deadest.

The comparative form of dead is deader.

Even though dead is an incomparable adjective these words can be found in a dictionary.

Both forms are often used figuratively or humorously:

Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age:

Here Rosa fell flat on her back in the deadest of faints. Her limbs were rigid, her eyes glassy; what had Jerry been doing? It must have been something very bad, for her to take on like that.

source unknown:

He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.

Interesting. There is NO comparative or superlative form of Dead. There are certain adjective which can't be compared e.g.

Dead, circuler, unique, round, complete, right, correct, etc. A dead person cant be More Dead or Deader, Most Dead or Deadest. Correct cant be more correct or most correct and so on.

Answer 2

deadlier and the deadliest

Answer 3

deader