cadaverous

cadaverous
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cadaverous — index dead, lifeless (dead) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • cadaverous — looking like a corpse, early 15c., from L. cadaverosus corpse like, from cadaver (see CADAVER (Cf. cadaver)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • cadaverous — wasted, pinched, *haggard, worn, careworn Analogous words: gaunt, skinny, scrawny, angular, rawboned, lank, lanky, *lean, spare Antonyms: plump, stout Contrasted words: *fleshy, fat, corpulent, obese, portly, rotund …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • cadaverous — [adj] pale, corpselike ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and… …   New thesaurus

  • cadaverous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony …   English terms dictionary

  • cadaverous — [kə dav′ər əs] adj. [L cadaverosus] of or like a cadaver; esp., pale, ghastly, or gaunt and haggard cadaverously adv. cadaverousness n …   English World dictionary

  • cadaverous — [[t]kədæ̱vərəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale. [WRITTEN] The tall, thin man had a long, cadaverous face …   English dictionary

  • cadaverous — ca|dav|er|ous [kəˈdævərəs] adj literary looking extremely thin, pale, and unhealthy ▪ cadaverous cheeks …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • cadaverous — adjective formal looking extremely pale, thin, and unhealthy: cadaverous cheeks …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • cadaverous — adjective his cadaverous face Syn: (deathly) pale, pallid, ashen, gray, whey faced, sallow, wan, anemic, bloodless, etiolated, corpselike, deathlike; bony, skeletal, emaciated, skin and bones, haggard, gaunt, drawn …   Thesaurus of popular words

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