cadaverous
cadaverous adjective: corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
Adjective
cadaverous (comparative more cadaverous, superlative most cadaverous)
- Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
- The speakers were three men, rather beyond middle life. One was pale and cadaverous, as if every feature gave testimony to the length of his vigils and the rigour of his fasts, while straight black hair hanging down on each side his face added to his wild and neglected appearance.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 196
- It may have been the sight of that cadaverous ambition and self-complacent meanness, which showed itself in Paley’s yellow face, and twinkled in his narrow eyes, or it may have been a natural appetite for pleasure and joviality, of which it must be confessed Mr. Pen was exceedingly fond, which...1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
- Synonyms:
- corpse-like, unburied
cadaverous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
cadaverous in Tamil
- பிணம் ஒத்த பிணம் போல்
cadaverous in Urdu
- ڈراؤنا, کمزور, لاش جیسا, مریل سا, زرد
cadaverous in Bengali
- মৃতদেহের মতো শুষ্ক, ফ্যাকাশে
cadaverous in Malayalam
- pallid, (deathly) pale, ashen
- ശവപ്രായമായ, വിളറിയ, ശവതുല്യമായ, ശവംപോലുള്ള, വിവർണ്ണമായ, വർണ്ണരഹിതമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- cadaverous in Kannada
- ಬಿಳಿಚಿದ
- cadaverous in Sanskrit
- शाव śāva
Examples of cadaverous in a sentence
- Some approached pure blanching; some had a bluish pallor; some worn by the older characters (which had possibly lain by folded for many a year) inclined to a cadaverous tint, and to a Georgian style.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine...
- Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
Synonyms of cadaverous
Forms of cadaverous
| comparative | more cadaverous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cadaverous |
Origin of cadaverous
From Latin cadāverōsus; compare Middle English cadaverous (“gangrenous, mortified”).
Words formed from cadaverous
Questions about cadaverous
- What does cadaverous mean?
- Cadaverous means corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
- What is cadaverous in Tamil?
- Cadaverous in Tamil is பிணம் ஒத்த பிணம் போல். See Cadaverous meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use cadaverous in a sentence?
- Some approached pure blanching; some had a bluish pallor; some worn by the older characters (which had possibly lain by folded for many a year) inclined to a cadaverous tint, and to a Georgian style.
- What part of speech is cadaverous?
- Cadaverous is an adjective.
Words near cadaverous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cadaverous (page history and authors); cadaverous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cadaverous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cadaverous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cadaverous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); cadaverous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); शाव (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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