skeletonlike

English

Etymology

skeleton +‎ -like

Adjective

skeletonlike (comparative more skeletonlike, superlative most skeletonlike)

1. Like a skeleton.
   • 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 167:

     The myriads of tiny twinkling lights with their background of mysterious half darkness, the skeletonlike forms of the massive buildings, barely revealed, and […]