Difference between Deadly and Harmful

What is the difference between Deadly and Harmful?

Deadly as an adjective is lethal while Harmful as an adjective is of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious

Deadly

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: lethal very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.) very boring excellent, awesome, cool

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Fatally, mortally. In a way which suggests death.

Example sentence: History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

Harmful

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious

Example sentence: The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

We hope you now know whether to use Deadly or Harmful in your sentence.

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