'Cadaverous' definitions:
Definition of 'cadaverous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end" [syn: cadaverous, cadaveric]
Definition of 'Cadaverous'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'cadaverous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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