ghastly; corpse-like
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Cadaverous Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.
Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.
(a.)
Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutHaving the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
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.
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.
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" [syn: bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
Resembling a corpse.
Corpselike; hence, haggard, pale **-His face appeared cadaverous from long imprisonment.
Adjective
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"
(synonym) bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
(similar) thin, lean
