About The Word Cadaverous
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Cadaverous
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What's The Definition Of Cadaverous?
[adj] 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cadaverous: bony | emaciated | gaunt | haggard | lean | pinched | skeletal | thin | wasted Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Cadaverous In Webster's Dictionary \Ca*dav"er*ous\, a. [L. cadaverosus.]
1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale;
ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
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.
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