The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deathlike
Deathlike \Death"like`\, a.
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Resembling death.
A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose.
--Pope. Deadly. [Obs.] ``Deathlike dragons.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
deathlike
a. 1 Resembling death. 2 (context obsolete English) deadly.
WordNet
deathlike
adj. having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly pallor" [syn: deathly]
Usage examples of "deathlike".
Tucking the guidebook under her arm, Gamay stepped over the mangy black Labrador retriever stretched out in a deathlike sleep on the rickety front porch and pushed the door open.
His head was very sharply cut with the chisel and was as white as the mane, only the lips and the hair relieving the deathlike mask, the former a pale coral and the latter a dark chestnut brown.