deathlike en · ADJ
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.
Meanings
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Resembling or characteristic of death.
a deathlike silence
They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages.
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:
- (obsolete) Deadly.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more deathlike | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most deathlike | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| death-like | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (4)
mr मृत्यूसारखा (resembling death) · eo kvazaŭ-morta (resembling death) · fi kuoleman kaltainen (resembling death) · de totengleich (resembling death)