deathlike

See also: death-like

English

Etymology tree

English death

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-West Germanic *-līk

Old English -līċ

Middle English -like

English -like

English deathlike

From death + -like.

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.

resembling death

deadly — see deadly