deathlike
See also: death-like
English
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Adjective
deathlike (comparative more deathlike, superlative most deathlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of death.
- 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:
- They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages.
- a deathlike silence
- (obsolete) Deadly.
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resembling death
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deadly — see deadly