All deathlike synonyms
death·like
D d adj deathlike
- deathly — If you say that someone is deathly pale or deathly still, you are emphasizing that they are very pale or still, like a dead person.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
- gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- ghostlike — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- ghostly — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
adjective deathlike
- skeletal — of, relating to, or like a skeleton.
- ashen — Someone who is ashen looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- pallid — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.