Definition of 'cadaverous'
Adjective
- 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"
Synonyms: bony emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal wasted - of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
Synonyms: cadaveric