cadaverous

3 definitions found

cadaverous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cadaverous \Ca*dav"er*ous\, a. [L. cadaverosus.]
     1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale;
        ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead
        body. "The scent cadaverous." -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ly, adv.
        -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

cadaverous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cadaverous
      adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
             "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt
             men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and
             cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his
             wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony,
             cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched,
             skeletal, wasted]
      2: of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long
         anticipated his cadaverous end" [syn: cadaverous,
         cadaveric]

cadaverous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "cadaverous":
     achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bled white,
     bloodless, blue, chloranemic, colorless, corpselike, dead, deadly,
     deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy,
     discolored, dull, eerie, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated,
     etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint,
     fallow, flat, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, gruesome,
     haggard, hollow-eyed, hueless, hypochromic, jejune, lackluster,
     leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, macabre, marantic, marasmic, mat,
     mealy, mortuary, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced,
     pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, puny, sallow,
     shriveled, sickly, skeletal, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid,
     tallow-faced, toneless, uncanny, uncolored, underfed,
     undernourished, unearthly, wan, washed-out, wasted, waxen, weak,
     weazeny, weird, whey-faced, white, withered, wizened, wraithlike