deathlike

[ deth-lahyk ]

adjective

1. resembling death.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deathlike¹

1540–50; death + -like; compare Old English dēathlīc deathly

Example Sentences

If you know anything about Burton’s movies, you know that they tend to feature characters who embody all the qualities of a sickly Victorian-era child: waifish, sunken doe-eye and gaunt faces with a deathlike pallor.

From Salon

I think that part of what drove theater attendance this summer was a subconscious attraction to the deathlike repetition of timeless dreamworlds, whether underwater or plastered in pink.

From Salon

Inside the field hospital at Azovstal, the wounded soldiers looked pale and deathlike.

From New York Times

And at this point climate denialism has a deathlike grip on the GOP — a grip unlikely to loosen until complete catastrophe is upon us, and maybe not even then.

From Seattle Times

Failing to turn friendship with an aristocratic young woman into something more, a despondent Guy wills himself into a deathlike sleep, eventually awakening in a seemingly idyllic socialist future.

From Washington Post