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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cadaverous \cadav"erous\, a. l. cadaverosus.
   1. having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale;
      ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
      1913 webster

   2. of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead
      body. "the scent cadaverous." -- cadav"erously, adv.
      -- cadav"erousness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
cadav"erously cadav"erousness 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
bony emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal 
wasted 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
96 moby thesaurus words for "cadaverous":
   achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bled white,
   bloodless, blue, chloranemic, colorless, corpselike, dead, deadly,
   deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy,
   discolored, dull, eerie, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated,
   etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint,
   fallow, flat, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, gruesome,
   haggard, hollow-eyed, hueless, hypochromic, jejune, lackluster,
   leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, macabre, marantic, marasmic, mat,
   mealy, mortuary, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced,
   pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, puny, sallow,
   shriveled, sickly, skeletal, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid,
   tallow-faced, toneless, uncanny, uncolored, underfed,
   undernourished, unearthly, wan, washed-out, wasted, waxen, weak,
   weazeny, weird, whey-faced, white, withered, wizened, wraithlike





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