deathlike

See also: death-like

English

Alternative forms

• death-like

Etymology

Etymology tree

English death

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-West Germanic *-līk

Old English -līċ

Middle English -like

English -like

English deathlike

From death + -like.

Adjective

deathlike (comparative more deathlike, superlative most deathlike)

1. 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

2. (obsolete) Deadly.

Synonyms

• deadlike

Related terms

• deadliness
• deathliness

Translations

resembling death

• Esperanto: kvazaŭ-morta
• Finnish: kuoleman kaltainen
• German: totengleich
• Marathi: मृत्यूसारखा m (mŕtyūsārkhā)

deadly — see deadly