corpselike

comparative more corpselike · superlative most corpselike · alternative corpse-like

1. Resembling a corpse.

   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.

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

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   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.

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

   Synonyms: cadaverous, deathly