corpse-like
Like the deceased
Corpse-like describes something resembling a dead body in appearance or quality.
The term typically characterizes extreme pallor, stillness, or rigidity in a living person: Her corpse-like pallor alarmed the nurses.
It can also describe an unsettling lifelessness in inanimate things, such as a wax figure or an eerily quiet room.
Fascinated by death grotesquely
- morbidUnhealthily drawn to darkness
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
sepulchral · ghastly · eerie · haunting · sinister · death-like · skeletal · gaunt
Pale, grayish-white
- wanPale and unwell-looking
- pallidUnhealthily lacking color
- sallowUnhealthily yellowish complexion
- blanchedMade white by heat
pasty · chalky · bloodless · colorless · waxen · drained · ghostly · anemic
Body for dissection
carcass · inanimate · expired · perished · defunct · departed · exanimate · postmortem
Unable to bend
- stiffNot easily bent
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- immobileUnable to shift
catatonic · paralyzed · petrified · statuesque · stone-still · fixed · glazed · vacant
ghoulish
Fascinated by death grotesquely
- morbidUnhealthily drawn to darkness
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
cadaverous · sepulchral · ghastly · eerie · haunting · sinister · death-like · skeletal · gaunt · hollow-eyed
ashen
Pale, grayish-white
blanched · pasty · chalky · bloodless · colorless · waxen · drained · ghostly · anemic · livid
cadaver
Body for dissection
stiff · carcass · inanimate · expired · perished · defunct · departed · exanimate · postmortem · rigor mortis
rigid
Unable to bend
- stiffNot easily bent
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
immobile · catatonic · paralyzed · petrified · statuesque · stone-still · fixed · glazed · vacant · slack-jawed