[syn: cadaverous, cadaveric]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cadaverous
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "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