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Deadest vs Deadset - What's the difference?

deadest | deadset |

As adjectives the difference between deadest and deadset

is that deadest is (figurative or humorous) (dead); most dead while deadset is .

deadest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (figurative or humorous) (dead); most dead.
  • * 1848 , Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=111242393&textreg=1&query=deadest&id=BroJanI]
    • What crime was this, that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner? -- what mystery, that broke out now in fire and now in blood, at the deadest hours of night?
  • * 1915 , Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=326352999&tag=Grahame,+Kenneth:+The+Golden+Age,+1915&query=deadest&id=GraGold]
    • 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.

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    deadset

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 12, author=Carl Hulse, title=House Creates a Panel to Watch Over Lawmakers’ Behavior, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Some Democrats were equally deadset against it. }}