deathlike
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8.6
- adjective
- /ˈdɛθˌlaɪk/
- In the depths of winter, the landscape lay under a deathlike blanket of snow, void of color and sound.
- deathlike sleep
Examples
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In the fall and winter of 1741-42, dozens of gifted lay men and women in parishes from southern Connecticut to downeast Maine experienced similar raptures in which they lay in a deathlike state for a protracted period of time.
Academic text (2005) -
The room was shrouded in a deathlike stillness, as if all life had been drained from it.
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His deathlike grip on the safety bar in front of them.
Fiction book (1992) -
Calam felt a deathlike chill as the dog walked to the fireplace.
Fiction book (1997) -
Very soon now, the drug will cause the subject... to experience a deathlike paralysis... together with deep feelings of terror and helplessness.
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All I had to do, if my mother's baby came in the night, was to raise our sleeping benefactors from a deathlike trance.
Fiction book (1991) -
Now he could see them squirming weakly, gasping for breath even as they remained in a deathlike trance.
Fiction book (2001) -
A shroud of silence hung heavily over them, and the aura it projected was leaden and deathlike.
Fiction book (2002) -
So instead, the Beastlord pretended haughty indifference and turned a bored, deathlike eye toward his unholy ally.
Fiction book (1992) -
After the car accident, he lay on the ground in a deathlike position, unresponsive and still.
Synonyms
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1.0
Still and quiet, without movement or life, like water
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7.5
Looking like a ghost and causing fear
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4.4
Too harsh for plants or animals to survive there
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6.5
Very pale, still, or quiet like someone who is dead
2
6.5
Having a pale, thin, and quiet appearance that feels spooky
1
9.1
Looks very pale and still like a dead person
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7.7
Looking or moving like a tired, lifeless person
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9.9
Having a thin, ghostlike appearance
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8.3
Dark, quiet, and gloomy like a tomb
Antonyms
How Deathlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deathlike is simply made of death and -like, where -like means 'similar to', like in childlike or lifelike. So something deathlike looks or feels very pale, still, or silent, like being dead.