Deathlike

Definition: Deathlike

Deathlike

Adjective

1. Having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly pallor".

Date "deathlike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Synonym: Deathlike

Synonym: deathly (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Deathlike

English words defined with "deathlike": Ashes ♦ Deadish ♦ livid ♦ Thanatoid. (references)

"Deathlike" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Deathlike" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	5	157,705

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Language		Translations for "deathlike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i ngjashëm vdekjes. (various references)

Arabic		‏مثل الموت. (various references)

Bulgarian		мъртвешки (cadaveric, cadaverous, deathly, ghastly). (various references)

Czech		smrtelný (deadly, deathly, fatal, killing, lethal, mortal, unrelieved, unutterable). (various references)

Finnish		haudan hiljaisuus (deathlike silence). (various references)

French		semblable de mort (deathly). (various references)

German		totenähnlich (deathly). (various references)

Greek		νεκρικόσ (deathly, funereal). (various references)

Hungarian		halálszerû (deathly). (various references)

Italian		mortale (deadly, deathly, fatal, killing, lethal, mortal), cadaverico (cadaveric, cadaverous). (various references)

Manx		bassoil. (various references)

Pig Latin		eathlikeday.(various references)

Portuguese		de morte (deathly), mortal (cutthroat, dead, deadly, deathly, earth-born, fatal, fleshly, killing, lethargic, mortal, mortality, pernickety, pestilent, swashing), cadavérico (cadaveric, cadaverous, lurid). (various references)

Russian		подобный смерти. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nalik na smrt. (various references)

Spanish		cadavérico (cadaveric, cadaverous, ghastly). (various references)

Swedish		dödslik (deathly). (various references)

Turkish		öldürücü (baneful, deadly, deathly, fatal, fateful, fell, homicidal, killing, lethal, murderous, perishing, pestilent, pestilential, virulent, vital), ölüm gibi (deathly). (various references)

Ukranian		як смерть, смертельний (deadly, deathly, mortal), подібний до смерті (deathly). (various references)

Vietnamese		như chết (deathly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Deathlike" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deathline, deathlock, Dethick, dethlac, heathlike. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-k-l-t"
	-2 letters: hatlike, tealike.
	-3 letters: aedile, daleth, delate, detail, dilate, elated, hailed, halide, halite, halted, healed, heated, heiled, hilted, ideate, kilted, kithed, lathed, leaked, tailed, talked, talkie.
	-4 letters: ailed, alike, dealt, death, delta, edile, elate, elide, elite, haled, halid, hated, hiked, ideal, khadi, kheda, kited, kithe, laith, laked, lated, lathe, lathi, latke, lethe, liked, lithe, telae, telia, tidal, tilak, tilde, tiled.
	-5 letters: adit, aide, akee, alee, alit, dahl, dale, date, deal, deet, deil, deke, dele, deli, delt, dhak, dhal, dial, diel, diet, dike, dita, dite, eath, edit, eide, eked, elhi, hade, haed, haet, haik, hail, hake, hale, halt, hate, head, heal, heat, heed, heel, heil, held, hide, hied, hike, hila, hilt, idea, idle, ikat, ilea, ilka, kadi, kail, kale, keel, keet, khat, khet, kilt, kite, kith, lade, laid, lake, lakh, late, lath, lati, lead, leak, leek, leet, leke, lied, like, lite, tael, tail, take, tale, tali, talk, teak, teal, teed, teel, tela, tele, thae, thee, tide, tied, tike, tile.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-k-l-t"
	+1 letter: threadlike.
	+4 letters: kindheartedly.
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