Definitions for cadaverous

cadaverous ca·dav·er·ous

Spelling: [kuh-dav-er-uh s]
IPA: /kəˈdæv ər əs/

Cadaverous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 646 anagrams from letters in cadaverous (aacdeorsuv).

Definitions for cadaverous

adjective

  1. of or like a corpse.
  2. pale; ghastly.
  3. haggard and thin.

Origin of cadaverous

First recorded in 1620-30, cadaverous is from the Latin word cadāverōsus like a corpse. See cadaver, -ous

Examples for cadaverous

There was a silence in which Caradoc stood tall and cadaverous as a ghost.

But the later stools will again be thin and of cadaverous odor.

In the small circle of light a long, cadaverous face appeared.

His spare and cadaverous figure was always clothed in dark colours.

His thin, cadaverous face was sufficient in itself to inspire wonder.

"Of a pale and cadaverous aspect," continued the gen-d'arme.

The Reverend George was a renegade Highland-man of the cadaverous order.

Save for the extreme, cadaverous pallor, there was no mark of death.

I dressed, looking like the cadaverous ghost I felt myself to be.

cadaverous takes the wine-glass in his hand, and looks at it with abhorrence.

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