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Etymology
death + -like
Adjective
deathlike (comparative more deathlike, superlative most deathlike)
- 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
- (obsolete) Deadly.
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