corpselike

See also: corpse-like

English

Alternative forms

• corpse-like

Etymology

From corpse ‎ -like.

Adjective

corpselike (comparative more corpselike, superlative most corpselike)

1. Resembling a corpse.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Upon the ground before the daïs were stretched scores of the corpselike forms of the spectators, till at last the long lines of them were lost in the gloomy background.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 7, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     With Akeley’s permission I lighted a small oil lamp, turned it low, and set it on a distant bookcase beside the ghostly bust of Milton; but afterward I was sorry I had done so, for it made my host’s strained, immobile face and listless hands look damnably abnormal and corpselike.

Synonyms

• cadaverous
• deathly

Derived terms

• uncorpselike

 

Translations

resembling a corpse

• Latin: cadāverōsus