skeletonlike

English

Etymology

skeleton +‎ -like

Adjective

skeletonlike (comparative more skeletonlike, superlative most skeletonlike)

  1. Like a skeleton.
    • 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 167:
      The myriads of tiny twinkling lights with their background of mysterious half darkness, the skeletonlike forms of the massive buildings, barely revealed, and […]
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