cadaverous | Definition of cadaverous

Synonyms and Antonyms of cadaverous

1 lacking a healthy skin color

everyone always looks cadaverous in the winter

Synonyms of cadaverous

ashen, ashy, blanched, doughy, livid, lurid, mealy, pale, paled, pallid, pasty, peaked, wan

Words Related to cadaverous

sallow, sallowish, sick, sickly, waxen, waxy

white, whitened

anemic, bloodless

whey-faced, white-faced

Near Antonyms of cadaverous

blushing, flushed, pink

Antonyms of cadaverous

blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine

2 suffering extreme weight loss as a result of hunger or disease

a cadaverous cancer patient living out his final days with dignity and courage

Synonyms of cadaverous

emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted

Words Related to cadaverous

bony (also boney), lank, lanky, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sinewy, skinny, spare, thin

starved, underfed, undernourished

famished, hungry, starving

shriveled (or shrivelled), withered, wizened

Near Antonyms of cadaverous

beefy, brawny, burly, fit, hale, healthy, hearty, husky

chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavyset, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, stocky, thickset, tubby