death-like
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.36 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of deathlike.
Example Sentences
- "Not the faintest, or most distant sound, of any description whatsoever, reached their attentive listen; not even the reverberated echo of their footsteps struck their directed ear—a soft earth received their cautious tread, and all was a profound and death-like quiet."
- "“Theresa! (exclaimed the stranger) “is your name Theresa? asked she, a death-like paleness at the same time overspreading her countenance."
- "As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room."
- "Some few disclosures, some secret conversations, broken by the hollow cough, by the death-like faintings, passed between them."
- "Mother Earth, at their devastating touch, falls into a death-like swoon—her green mantle overlaid by a dust-coloured shroud."
Inflected Forms
more death-like (comparative)
most death-like (superlative)