cadaverous (redirected from cadaverousness)

ca·dav·er·ous  (k-dvr-s)

adj.

1. Suggestive of death; corpselike: a cadaverous odor.

2.

a. Of corpselike pallor; pallid: "I saw a cadaverous face appear at a small window" (Charles Dickens).

b. Emaciated; gaunt: a cadaverous mongrel picking through the garbage.

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ca·daver·ous·ly adv.

ca·daver·ous·ness n.

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cadaverous [kəˈdævərəs]

adj

1. of or like a corpse, esp in being deathly pale; ghastly

2. thin and haggard; gaunt

cadaverously  adv

cadaverousness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	cadaverous - 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" bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
	2.	cadaverous - of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end" cadaveric

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cadaverous

adjective deathly, pale, ghastly, wan, blanched, gaunt, haggard, emaciated, bloodless, pallid, ashen, hollow-eyed, corpse-like, like death warmed up (informal), deathlike a tall, thin man with a cadaverous face

Translations

cadaverous [kəˈdævərəs] ADJ → cadavérico

cadaverous [kəˈdævərəs] adj [person, face] → cadavérique; [appearance] → cadavéreux/euse

cadaverous

adj (= corpse-like) → Kadaver-, Leichen-; (= gaunt) → ausgezehrt, ausgemergelt; (= pale) → leichenblass

cadaverous [kəˈdæv/ərəs] adj (frm) → cadaverico/a

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cadaverous [kəˈdæv/ərəs] adj (frm) → cadaverico/a