All cadaverous synonyms
ca·dav·er·ous
C c adjective cadaverous
- bony — Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones.
- pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
adj cadaverous
- ashen — Someone who is ashen looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- bloodless — A bloodless coup or victory is one in which nobody is killed.
- consumptive — A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
- dead — A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
- deathly — If you say that someone is deathly pale or deathly still, you are emphasizing that they are very pale or still, like a dead person.
- gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- ghostly — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- haggard — having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
- pallid — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- peaked — Also, on-peak. being at the point of maximum frequency, intensity, use, etc.; busiest or most active: Hotel rooms are most expensive during the peak travel seasons.
- sallow — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
- shadowy — resembling a shadow in faintness, slightness, etc.: shadowy outlines.
- sick — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- spectral — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- wan — of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
- wasted — not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents.
- deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
- skeletal — of, relating to, or like a skeleton.
- peaky — peaked2 .
- skeleton — Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
- skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.