Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cadaverous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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" [syn: {bony},
{emaciated}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal},
{wasted}]
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