Origin: Latin
suffix -ous
Cadaverous has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Adjective
1
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
"a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
"eyes were haggard and cavernous"
"small pinched faces"
"kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
2
of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
"we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
3
Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
Example Sentences
"a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
adjective
"eyes were haggard and cavernous"
adjective
"small pinched faces"
adjective
"kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
adjective
"we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
adjective