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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
- Example: "emaciated bony hands"
- Example: "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
- Example: "eyes were haggard and cavernous"
- Example: "small pinched faces"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
[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]