Cadaverous
English Meaning
Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
- Suggestive of death; corpselike: a cadaverous odor.
- Of corpselike pallor; pallid: "I saw a cadaverous face appear at a small window” ( Charles Dickens).
- Emaciated; gaunt: a cadaverous mongrel picking through the garbage.