Word.ws English Dictionary

skullish

skullish adjective: characteristic of or somewhat resembling a skull.

Adjective

skullish (comparative more skullish, superlative most skullish)

  1. Characteristic of or somewhat resembling a skull.
    • Moonlight caught the skullish face, became a hot flooding wax that pooled into gopher-hole eye sockets and flowed over bone and tooth, sluiced along jawline and spilled into cadaverous oblivion.2002, Cathy Buburuz, Side Show: Tales of the Big Top and the Bizarre, page 27

Forms of skullish

comparativemore skullish
superlativemost skullish

Origin of skullish

From skull + -ish.

Questions about skullish

What does skullish mean?
Skullish means characteristic of or somewhat resembling a skull.
What part of speech is skullish?
Skullish is an adjective.

Words near skullish in the dictionary

  1. skullhon
  2. skullie
  3. skullies
  4. skulling
  5. skullings
  6. skullish
  7. skulllike
  8. skulls
  9. skulls and crossbones
  10. skulls-and-crossbones
  11. skullscape

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skullish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “skullish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/skullish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.