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cadaverous
adjective
1 cadaverous
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted.
Roget 362:
cadaverous,
corpse-like;
unburied
etc.
363;
sapromyiophyllous†.
Roget 429:
uncolored
etc.
(color)
etc.
428;
colorless,
achromatic,
aplanatic†;
etiolate,
etiolated;
hueless†,
pale,
pallid;
palefaced†,
tallow-faced;
faint,
dull,
cold,
muddy,
leaden,
dun,
wan,
sallow,
dead,
dingy,
ashy,
ashen,
ghastly,
cadaverous,
glassy,
lackluster;
discolored
etc.
v..
light-colored,
fair,
blond;
white
etc.
430.
pale as death,
pale as ashes,
pale as a witch,
pale as a ghost,
pale as a corpse,
white as a corpse.
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Roget 846:
ugly,
ugly as sin,
ugly as a toad,
ugly as a scarecrow,
ugly as a dead monkey;
plain,
bald
(unadorned)
849;
homely;
ordinary,
unornamental†,
inartistic;
unsightly,
unseemly,
uncomely,
unlovely;
unshapely;
sightless,
seemless†;
not fit to be seen;
unbeauteous†,
unbeautiful;
beautiless†,
semibeautiful;
shapeless
etc.
(amorphous)
241.
misshapen,
misproportioned†;
monstrous;
gaunt
etc.
(thin)
203;
dumpy
etc.
(short)
201;
curtailed of its fair proportions;
ill-made,
ill-shaped,
ill-proportioned;
crooked
etc.
(distorted)
243;
hard featured,
hard visaged;
ill-favored,
hard-favored,
evil-favored;
ill-looking;
unprepossessing,
unattractive,
uninviting,
unpleasing.
graceless,
inelegant;
ungraceful,
ungainly,
uncouth,
stiff;
rugged,
rough,
gross,
rude,
awkward,
clumsy,
slouching,
rickety;
gawky;
lumping,
lumpish†;
lumbering;
hulky†,
hulking;
unwieldy.
squalid,
haggard;
grim,
grim faced,
grim visaged;
grisly,
ghastly;
ghost like,
death like;
cadaverous,
grewsome†,
gruesome.
frightful,
hideous,
odious,
uncanny,
forbidding;
repellant,
repulsive,
repugnant,
grotesque,
bizarre;
grody [Coll.],
grody to the max [Coll.];
horrid,
horrible;
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
foul
etc.
(dirty)
653;
dingy
etc.
(colorless)
429;
gaudy
etc.
(color)
428;
disfigured
etc.
v.;
discolored.
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2 cadaverous
Of or relating to a cadaver or corpse:
— We had long anticipated his cadaverous end.
synonym: cadaveric.
Polish: trupi
Moby thesaurus: achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bled white, bloodless, blue, chloranemic, colorless, corpselike, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dull, eerie, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hollow-eyed, hueless, hypochromic, jejune, lackluster, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, macabre, marantic, marasmic, mat, mealy, mortuary, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, puny, sallow, shriveled, sickly, skeletal, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid, tallow-faced, toneless, uncanny, uncolored, underfed, undernourished, unearthly, wan, washed-out, wasted, waxen, weak, weazeny, weird, whey-faced, white, withered, wizened, wraithlike ... show more.
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