Crossword clues for cadaverous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cadaverous \Ca*dav"er*ous\, a. [L. cadaverosus.]
Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"looking like a corpse," early 15c., from Latin cadaverosus "corpse-like," from cadaver (see cadaver). Related: Cadaverously; cadaverousness.
Wiktionary
a. corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
WordNet
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]
Usage examples of "cadaverous".
Later, the cadaverous schemer had sent word for Marty Lunk to arrive before that hour.
Akinaga remained, and the tall, cadaverous Yakuza wanted everyone to know that he was consolidating his power.
Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year the miserable drug called opium, to the amount of one million four hundred thousand pounds-- thousands devoted to one of the most despicable vices which afflict humanity!
With the help of the gentleman, a lean, cadaverous fellow perhaps twenty-eight or thirty years of age, the sailor got the foresheets off undamaged and passed a line round the spar.
He took the forms that Leva handed him and grinned and winked down at the cadaverous Italian.
They dressed in Valles fashion with layered tunics and sashes of colored silk, but only the pale, cadaverous man at the head of the trio was born on Ornifal.
The owner of the bar had recognized them as plainclothes policemen and had filled and refilled their glasses, quietly and with a hurt smile on his cadaverous face.
He turned away with a wave and moved towards where he had seen Clementine chatting beside a tall, cadaverous, fortyish bald man with a professorial manner.
A tall, cadaverous young man in an Alexandria-tailored yellow suit was coming through the second of the automatic clamshell doors into the area.
He looked thin, almost cadaverous, and his face was even whiter than usual, if such a thing were possible.
The space had been hewn from the rock on which the castle was founded, the walls of glistening, unmortised black stone decorated with brightly colored caricatures of bone-white, cadaverous men and women with cruel carmine mouths and ridiculously elongated limbs and exaggerated fangs.
She wore a cloak as red as the door, but had thrown back the hood to reveal her bald cadaverous head, the papery skin was drawn tight over her cheek and skull bones splotched here and there with wisdom and experience.
Just as Faraday focused on the plants the garden contained, the glossy red door of the hut opened and the old lady issued forth, dressed again in her red cloak with the hood thrown back from her cadaverous head.
He was looking positively cadaverous, she reflected, from three months of unremitting labor, without having taken a single day off.
Each crisis appeared to take an ounce of flesh, and now he looked cadaverous and more determined than ever.