adjective

• Very pale, thin, or bony.

  ‘he was gaunt and cadaverous’

  More example sentences

  • ‘She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks.’
  • ‘Stubble adorned his thin, cadaverous, scarred face, and remnants of blood stained the ends of his hair.’
  • ‘When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks.’
  • ‘Some bouts of serious illness left him with a cadaverous appearance that only enhanced his charisma.’
  • ‘You understand why he looked cadaverous long before April 3, 2000, when an assassin cut him down.’
  • ‘One of the lads is looking a bit cadaverous these days.’
  • ‘Peter shuffled his cadaverous form into the passenger side while I dumped the last of our provisions in the trunk.’
  • ‘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.’
  • ‘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.’
  • ‘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.’
  • ‘But a cadaverous light does suffuse her brushy work.’
  • ‘When she looked at him again, her face was cadaverous.’
  • ‘I now have new images whenever I see a cadaverous academic.’
  • ‘I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint.’
  • ‘A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields.’
  • ‘But the cadaverous count does not seem happy about the prospect of moving.’
  • ‘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.’
  • ‘We fine cadaverous fellows do not share your enthusiasm for the sanctity of life, for obvious reasons.’
  • ‘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.’

  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

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