Definition of cadaverous in English:

cadaverous

adjective kəˈdav(ə)rəskəˈdæv(ə)rəs

Very pale, thin, or bony.
he was gaunt and cadaverous
Example sentencesExamples
- Stubble adorned his thin, cadaverous, scarred face, and remnants of blood stained the ends of his hair.
- She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks.
- Six foot tall, slim and with a deceptive unassuming air, his blond hair and cadaverous cheek bones say rampant sex drive packaged as boy next door.
- When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks.
- Peter shuffled his cadaverous form into the passenger side while I dumped the last of our provisions in the trunk.
- Some bouts of serious illness left him with a cadaverous appearance that only enhanced his charisma.
- He further concluded that these cadaverous particles could adhere to the hands of physicians and thus be transferred to the women, thereby transmitting puerperal fever.
- One of the lads is looking a bit cadaverous these days.
- A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields.
- Here too, there was an urgent and primal need to manage the dark, yet in our night, tonight, the quiet darkness outside is replaced by a frantic and cadaverous light, and an overheated, yet archaic buzz.
- When she looked at him again, her face was cadaverous.
- The body's face was cadaverous and melting, the eyes the only prominent feature.
- Next to my large and robust American seat mates, I must have looked positively cadaverous.
- You understand why he looked cadaverous long before April 3, 2000, when an assassin cut him down.
- I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint.
- We fine cadaverous fellows do not share your enthusiasm for the sanctity of life, for obvious reasons.
- But the cadaverous count does not seem happy about the prospect of moving.
- But a cadaverous light does suffuse her brushy work.
- Victims suffered from bad breath, a loathsome cadaverous stink from within according to one contemporary, and other symptoms included high fever, acute stomach pains and bluish black spots on the body.
- I now have new images whenever I see a cadaverous academic.
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

Derivatives

cadaverously

adverb

By contrast, he chose to portray the character as ailing: cadaverously thin and pale with flushed cheeks and clawlike fingers.
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- 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.
- He works within a narrower spectrum, bringing to life a series of monologues for inter-related and cadaverously fleshed-out dummies.
- For a chef, he looks cadaverously under-nourished.

cadaverousness

noun

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.
Example sentencesExamples
- Among the many descriptive phrases used to describe him are these: " [A] cadaverousness of complexion,’ ‘lips somewhat thin and very pallid,’ and ‘an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison.’
- The first thing people will note about the film is the appearance of the actor, who dropped an alleged 63 pounds off of his pumped-up torso to emerge in such a state of rib-bulging cadaverousness that he looks like he just walked out of a concentration camp.
- He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse's.
- His pigmentation is described as ‘[a] cadaverousness of complexion’ and as having a ‘ghastly pallor’.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin cadaverosus, from cadaver 'corpse'.

Definition of cadaverous in US English:

cadaverous

adjectivekəˈdav(ə)rəskəˈdæv(ə)rəs

Resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.
he had a cadaverous appearance
Example sentencesExamples
- A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields.
- You understand why he looked cadaverous long before April 3, 2000, when an assassin cut him down.
- When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks.
- He further concluded that these cadaverous particles could adhere to the hands of physicians and thus be transferred to the women, thereby transmitting puerperal fever.
- Victims suffered from bad breath, a loathsome cadaverous stink from within according to one contemporary, and other symptoms included high fever, acute stomach pains and bluish black spots on the body.
- The body's face was cadaverous and melting, the eyes the only prominent feature.
- We fine cadaverous fellows do not share your enthusiasm for the sanctity of life, for obvious reasons.
- Peter shuffled his cadaverous form into the passenger side while I dumped the last of our provisions in the trunk.
- When she looked at him again, her face was cadaverous.
- I now have new images whenever I see a cadaverous academic.
- Next to my large and robust American seat mates, I must have looked positively cadaverous.
- But the cadaverous count does not seem happy about the prospect of moving.
- Here too, there was an urgent and primal need to manage the dark, yet in our night, tonight, the quiet darkness outside is replaced by a frantic and cadaverous light, and an overheated, yet archaic buzz.
- Six foot tall, slim and with a deceptive unassuming air, his blond hair and cadaverous cheek bones say rampant sex drive packaged as boy next door.
- Some bouts of serious illness left him with a cadaverous appearance that only enhanced his charisma.
- One of the lads is looking a bit cadaverous these days.
- She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks.
- I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint.
- Stubble adorned his thin, cadaverous, scarred face, and remnants of blood stained the ends of his hair.
- But a cadaverous light does suffuse her brushy work.
Synonyms
pale, deathly pale, pallid, white, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, corpse-like, deathlike, ghostly

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin cadaverosus, from cadaver ‘corpse’.

单词	cadaverous
释义	Definition of cadaverous in English: cadaverous adjective kəˈdav(ə)rəskəˈdæv(ə)rəs Very pale, thin, or bony. he was gaunt and cadaverous Example sentencesExamples Stubble adorned his thin, cadaverous, scarred face, and remnants of blood stained the ends of his hair. She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks. Six foot tall, slim and with a deceptive unassuming air, his blond hair and cadaverous cheek bones say rampant sex drive packaged as boy next door. When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks. Peter shuffled his cadaverous form into the passenger side while I dumped the last of our provisions in the trunk. Some bouts of serious illness left him with a cadaverous appearance that only enhanced his charisma. He further concluded that these cadaverous particles could adhere to the hands of physicians and thus be transferred to the women, thereby transmitting puerperal fever. One of the lads is looking a bit cadaverous these days. A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields. Here too, there was an urgent and primal need to manage the dark, yet in our night, tonight, the quiet darkness outside is replaced by a frantic and cadaverous light, and an overheated, yet archaic buzz. When she looked at him again, her face was cadaverous. The body's face was cadaverous and melting, the eyes the only prominent feature. Next to my large and robust American seat mates, I must have looked positively cadaverous. You understand why he looked cadaverous long before April 3, 2000, when an assassin cut him down. I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint. We fine cadaverous fellows do not share your enthusiasm for the sanctity of life, for obvious reasons. But the cadaverous count does not seem happy about the prospect of moving. But a cadaverous light does suffuse her brushy work. Victims suffered from bad breath, a loathsome cadaverous stink from within according to one contemporary, and other symptoms included high fever, acute stomach pains and bluish black spots on the body. I now have new images whenever I see a cadaverous academic. 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 Derivatives cadaverously adverb By contrast, he chose to portray the character as ailing: cadaverously thin and pale with flushed cheeks and clawlike fingers. Example sentencesExamples 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. 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. He works within a narrower spectrum, bringing to life a series of monologues for inter-related and cadaverously fleshed-out dummies. For a chef, he looks cadaverously under-nourished. cadaverousness noun 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. Example sentencesExamples Among the many descriptive phrases used to describe him are these: " [A] cadaverousness of complexion,’ ‘lips somewhat thin and very pallid,’ and ‘an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison.’ The first thing people will note about the film is the appearance of the actor, who dropped an alleged 63 pounds off of his pumped-up torso to emerge in such a state of rib-bulging cadaverousness that he looks like he just walked out of a concentration camp. He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse's. His pigmentation is described as ‘[a] cadaverousness of complexion’ and as having a ‘ghastly pallor’. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin cadaverosus, from cadaver 'corpse'. Definition of cadaverous in US English: cadaverous adjectivekəˈdav(ə)rəskəˈdæv(ə)rəs Resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony. he had a cadaverous appearance Example sentencesExamples A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields. You understand why he looked cadaverous long before April 3, 2000, when an assassin cut him down. When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks. He further concluded that these cadaverous particles could adhere to the hands of physicians and thus be transferred to the women, thereby transmitting puerperal fever. Victims suffered from bad breath, a loathsome cadaverous stink from within according to one contemporary, and other symptoms included high fever, acute stomach pains and bluish black spots on the body. The body's face was cadaverous and melting, the eyes the only prominent feature. We fine cadaverous fellows do not share your enthusiasm for the sanctity of life, for obvious reasons. Peter shuffled his cadaverous form into the passenger side while I dumped the last of our provisions in the trunk. When she looked at him again, her face was cadaverous. I now have new images whenever I see a cadaverous academic. Next to my large and robust American seat mates, I must have looked positively cadaverous. But the cadaverous count does not seem happy about the prospect of moving. Here too, there was an urgent and primal need to manage the dark, yet in our night, tonight, the quiet darkness outside is replaced by a frantic and cadaverous light, and an overheated, yet archaic buzz. Six foot tall, slim and with a deceptive unassuming air, his blond hair and cadaverous cheek bones say rampant sex drive packaged as boy next door. Some bouts of serious illness left him with a cadaverous appearance that only enhanced his charisma. One of the lads is looking a bit cadaverous these days. She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks. I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint. Stubble adorned his thin, cadaverous, scarred face, and remnants of blood stained the ends of his hair. But a cadaverous light does suffuse her brushy work. Synonyms pale, deathly pale, pallid, white, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, corpse-like, deathlike, ghostly Origin Late Middle English: from Latin cadaverosus, from cadaver ‘corpse’.
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