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Cadaverous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CADAVEROUS, a.
1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; wan; ghastly; as a cadaverous look.
2. Having the qualities of a dead body.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1627 1. a. of or relating to a corpse b. suggestive of corpses or tombs 2. a. pallid, livid b. gaunt, emaciated • cadaverously adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 corpselike. 2 deathly pale. Etymology: L cadaverosus (as CADAVER)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale. (WRITTEN) ...a tall man with a long, cadaverous face. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Pale, pallid, wan, ghastly, death-like.

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