cadaverous
Adjective Satellite
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Adjective
- of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
- "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
Adj
- Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin cadāverōsus; compare Middle English cadaverous (“gangrenous, mortified”).
Synonyms
bony, cadaveric, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, cadaverous, corpse-like, unburied
Scrabble Score: 16
cadaverous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcadaverous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cadaverous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary