Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Suggestive of death; corpselike.
- adjective Of corpselike pallor; pallid.
- adjective Emaciated; gaunt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a dead body; especially, having the appearance or color of the body of a dead person; pale; wan; ghastly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Corpselike ; hinting ofdeath ; imitating acadaver
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
- adjective very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Etymologies
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Examples
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I keep thinking the word cadaverous but I know that’s wrong because I just like saying cadavers.
super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006
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Those hells are therefore named accordingly; some are called cadaverous, some stercoraceous, some urinous, and so on.
Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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Before he went, he formally thanked his wife -- who hardly spoke to him unless she was obliged -- for her attention to his mother, and then lingered a little, looking no less "cadaverous," certainly, than when he had gone away, and apparently desiring to say more.
Sir George Tressady — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885
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Later, they would fall out over Louisa's desire to wear rouge in order to attenuate the "cadaverous" pallor of her complexion, which offended her husband's puritan sensibilities.
The Harvard Crimson | All Articles Grace E. Jackson 2010
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Later, they would fall out over Louisa's desire to wear rouge in order to attenuate the "cadaverous" pallor of her complexion, which offended her husband's puritan sensibilities.
The Harvard Crimson | All Articles Grace E. Jackson 2010
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Obama was always far more popular than the cadaverous Mr. Nelson.
Joseph A. Palermo: Citizens United -- Game Changer Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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In the past I was used to seeing a statue or banner of the Virgen de Guadalupe hanging from a bus's rear-view mirror, but now often the cadaverous figure of La Santa Muerte has become more and more common.
Superstition 2009
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In the past I was used to seeing a statue or banner of the Virgen de Guadalupe hanging from a bus's rear-view mirror, but now often the cadaverous figure of La Santa Muerte has become more and more common.
Superstition 2009
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Her cadaverous face drives her parents and friends to despair, but even so she refuses to feed herself.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Vampires uncloaked, from ‘Nosferatu’ to ‘Twilight’ www. buffalonews.com: He was a tall, cadaverous old man with white hair and eyebrows so bushy they almost created a unibrow.
VAMPIRE TOURS AND VAMPIRES UNCLOAKED! | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
madmouth commented on the word cadaverous
see also its quainly spelled cousin cadav'rous
May 14, 2009