[
UK
/kɐdˈævəɹəs/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
small pinched faces
eyes were haggard and cavernous -
of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
we had long anticipated his cadaverous end
How To Use cadaverous In A Sentence
- The door opened and Dr Aziz, a tall cadaverous man entered. A SEASON IN HELL
- He further concluded that these cadaverous particles could adhere to the hands of physicians and thus be transferred to the women, thereby transmitting puerperal fever.
- we had long anticipated his cadaverous end
- I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint.
- Victims suffered from bad breath, a loathsome cadaverous stink from within according to one contemporary, and other symptoms included high fever, acute stomach pains and bluish black spots on the body.
- I now have new images whenever I see a cadaverous academic.
- Roy, who'd been on the tour too, thinner and even more cadaverous now, had been Eddie's keeper. THE GOLDEN LION
- I had seen photographs of him in magazines---a cadaverous dandy with a cap of bootblack hair scraped back from his bony brow. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Tyler Sudley would break out, addressing the teacher, all unmindful of scholastic etiquette, a flush of pleasure rising to his swarthy cheek as he thrust back his wide black hat on his long dark hair and turned his candid gray eyes, all aglow, upon the cadaverous, ascetic preceptor, "ain't Lee-yander a-gittin 'on powerful, _powerful_ fas' with his book? The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
- A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields.
