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Adjective
/kəˈdavərəs/,
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Resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony,
  1. Resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony
    • - he had a cadaverous appearance
  1. bony: 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"
  2. of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
  3. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver
  4. (cadaverousness) The state or quality of being cadaverous
  5. resembling, especially having the color or appearance of a corpse.
  6. pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
  7. adj. Cadavéreux(-euse)