cadaverous

cadaverous is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
2. adjective. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.
3. adjective. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

   "emaciated bony hands"

   "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"

   Synonyms: bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

4. adjective. of or relating to a cadaver or corpse

   "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"

   Synonyms: cadaveric

Synonyms

bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, cadaveric

Common word forms

cadaverously, cadaverousness

Words from these letters

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