skull-like
Bony head appearance
Skull-like describes something resembling a skull in appearance—typically suggesting hollowed eye sockets, prominent bone structure, or a death's-head quality: His gaunt, skull-like face emerged from the shadows.
The word usually carries ominous or macabre connotations.
Resembling the grave
- ghoulishFascinated by death grotesquely
- morbidUnhealthily drawn to darkness
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
ominous · haunting · spectral · ghostly · gothic · grim · foreboding · creepy
Of or like bones
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
- cranialOf the skull
- hollow-eyedHaving sunken eyes
- gauntLean from deprivation
cadaverous · death's-head · osseous · fleshless · sunken · emaciated · bare-boned · jawless
deathly
Resembling the grave
sinister · ominous · haunting · spectral · ghostly · gothic · grim · foreboding · creepy · unsettling
skeletal
Of or like bones
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
- cranialOf the skull
- hollow-eyedHaving sunken eyes
gaunt · cadaverous · death's-head · osseous · fleshless · sunken · emaciated · bare-boned · jawless · mandibular
pirate
Maritime thief or bootlegger
- crossbonesIntersecting skeletal warning
- dangerExposure to harm
- poisonHarmful ingested substance
mortality · vanitas · calavera · Hamlet · Yorick · warning · toxic · hazard · rebel · punk
rounded
Having no sharp angles
- dome-shapedCurved like half-globe
- hollowEmpty within
- eyeholeOpening to look through
smooth · curved · white · bleached · pale · grinning · toothy · ivory · calcified · weathered