death-like

Resembling the deceased

Death-like describes something resembling death in stillness, pallor, or absence of vitality.

A death-like silence is profound and unnerving.

A death-like pallor suggests the colorlessness of a corpse.

Someone in a death-like sleep lies so motionless they could be mistaken for dead.

The word emphasizes eerie similarity to death without actual death occurring.

morbid

macabre

Disturbing, death-obsessed

funereal · sepulchral · lugubrious · necrotic · moribund · deathbed · terminal · fatalistic · grave · somber

pallor

ashen

Pale, grayish-white

  • wanPale and unwell-looking
  • paleLacking color intensity
  • sallowUnhealthily yellowish complexion

colorless · bloodless · blanched · chalky · gaunt · cadaverous · waxen · ghastly · pallid · drained

eerie

uncanny

Eerily beyond normal

foreboding · spectral · phantasmal · otherworldly · unearthly · eldritch · sinister · dreadful · unnerving · ghostly

stillness

motionless

Lacking all movement

  • inertInactive, physically or chemically
  • silentProducing no sound
  • hushedReduced to silence

quiet · immobile · frozen · suspended · unmoving · static · breathless · transfixed · rigid · petrified

lifeless

inanimate

Not alive, never was

defunct · cold · stiff · unanimated · inorganic · soulless · vacant · empty · hollow · pulseless

Opposites
vitality and animation

death-likevibrant

Full of life, intensity

lively · alive · animated · vital · full of life

warmth and responsiveness

death-likewarm

Moderately heated, or friendly

glowing · flushed · rosy · responsive · alert

animation/movement

death-likeanimated

Full of life, or drawn moving

active · dynamic · lively · moving · kinetic

Family

death, dead, deadly, deadliness, deathly, like, likely, likelihood, unlikely

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG