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death-like

death-like is the alternative form of deathlike.

Meaning of deathlike

Adjective

deathlike (comparative more deathlike, superlative most deathlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of death.
    • They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205
  2. (obsolete) Deadly.

Forms of death-like

comparativemore death-like
superlativemost death-like

Questions about death-like

What is death-like the alternative form of?
Death-like is the alternative form of deathlike.

Words near death-like in the dictionary

  1. death-fires
  2. death-grip
  3. death-hunter
  4. death-knell
  5. death-knells
  6. death-like
  7. death-messenger
  8. death-messengers
  9. death-name
  10. death-names
  11. death-of-man

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