deathlyEnglishOxford American Thesaurusdeathly adjective the wounded soldiers had a deathly pallor: deathlike, corpselike, cadaverous, ghostly, ghostlike, ghastly, grim, haggard; ashen, chalky, chalk white, white, pale, pallid, bloodless, colorless, wan, anemic, pasty, sickly, drained, sapped; informal like death warmed up, peaky; rare etiolated.