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cadaverous /kəˈdav(ə)rəs /adjectiveVery pale, thin, or bony: he was gaunt and cadaverous...- She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks.
- Stubble adorned his thin, cadaverous, scarred face, and remnants of blood stained the ends of his hair.
- When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks.
Synonyms (deathly) pale, pallid, white, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, corpse-like, deathlike, ghostly; very thin, as thin as a rake, bony, skeletal, emaciated, skin-and-bones, scrawny, scraggy, raw-boned, haggard, gaunt, drawn, pinched, hollow-cheeked, hollow-eyed informal like death warmed up, like a bag of bones, anorexic dated spindle-shanked rare livid, etiolated, lymphatic, exsanguinous, starveling, macilent Derivativescadaverously adverb ...- Haggard, frayed and cadaverously pale with his eyes sunk somewhere deep in the back of his skull, in the final scene he looks like someone who is about to die.
- For a chef, he looks cadaverously under-nourished.
- I'm an ectomorph with medium ash brown hair that I'm always ruining by dyeing it (so it always has garish brassy orange tones), brown eyes that I sometimes conceal with grey contacts, and cadaverously fair skin.
cadaverousness noun ...- His pigmentation is described as ‘[a] cadaverousness of complexion’ and as having a ‘ghastly pallor’.
- He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse's.
- Therefore, at the politically upbeat end of the scale, with conflicts, both domestic and international, being resolved, they might well evolve into a minimalist organization, lean perhaps to the point of cadaverousness, based primarily on high technology and special forces, supported by airpower, which many today see as a classical model for the new world.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin cadaverosus, from cadaver 'corpse'. |