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cadaverous

adjective

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

untanned

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

flabby, soft

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