deathsome
English
Adjective
deathsome (comparative more deathsome, superlative most deathsome)
- Having the characteristic of death; alluding to or suggesting death
- 1994, Poppy Z. Brite, Drawing Blood:
- He was just Calvin's type, Terry knew: skinny bones and deathsome pallor, but spiced up with a smartass twist to his lips.
- 2007, Broos Campbell, The War of Knives:
- The Monongahela Valley in western Pennsylvania was a wild and deathsome place when I entered the world in 1782.
- 2016, Jack Kerouac, Scattered Poems:
- But I'm lying as I be / Under a deathsome tree
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