corpselike
1
9.1
- adjective
- /ˈkɔrˌplaɪk/
:
cadavérico
- I see her slide two of the tiny knives into her own gut, and soft pieces of the flab of a skeletally skinny person drop like meringue to the floor until a kind of corpselike rib cage bares itself.
Examples
-
The victim lay on the cold ground, her skin having taken on a disturbing, corpselike hue.
-
As the night wore on, his corpselike complexion made it clear that he had not been well for some time.
-
The abandoned building had a corpselike stillness, with shadows that seemed to linger like forgotten souls.
Synonyms
248
1.0
Still and quiet, without movement or life, like water
8
4.4
Too harsh for plants or animals to survive there
6
6.5
Very pale, still, or quiet like someone who is dead
2
9.9
Connected with a dead human body or its parts
1
9.1
Very pale and thin, looking like a dead body
1
8.6
Pale and motionless like someone who is dead
Antonyms
How Lifeless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Corpselike comes from corpse ('dead body') plus the ending -like ('similar to'), so a corpselike face or silence is one that looks or feels like a dead body — very pale, cold, or completely still.