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Synonyms for death-like

  • adjective

Most common

dead ghastly deathly cadaverous

All synonyms

Adjective

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Resembling or characteristic of death.

Related words

Word family
deadliness
Other spellings
deathlike

Example sentences

  • dead Happy is she who marries the son of a dead mother.
  • ghastly The idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him.
  • deathly I’m deathly afraid of turning left onto that street.
  • cadaverous That cadaverous smell almost made me vomit.

By length

4 letters
dead1
7 letters
ghastly2, deathly2
8 letters
deadlike
10 letters
cadaverous

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ghastly2 = 2 syllables).