View results from:
Wordnet |
Webster |
Wiktionary |
Easton
cadaverous in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- 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"
bony cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal wasted
- of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
"we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
cadaverous cadaveric
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University