cadaverous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cadaverous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cadaverous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cadaverous adj 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" Synonym(s): bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end" Synonym(s): cadaverous, cadaveric
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cadaverous \Cadav"erous\, a. [L. cadaverosus.] 1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. 2. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. [bd]The scent cadaverous.[b8] -- {Cadav"erously}, adv. -- {Cadav"erousness}, n.