Synonyms of cadaverous

cadaverous

adjective

1

as in pallid

lacking a healthy skin color

everyone always looks cadaverous in the winter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pallid
• pale
• paled
• ashen
• pasty
• ashy
• wan
• doughy
• blanched
• lurid
• sick
• sallow
• mealy
• livid
• waxen
• white
• sickly
• waxy
• peaked
• anemic
• whitened
• untanned
• bloodless
• sallowish
• whey-faced
• white-faced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ruddy
• red
• rosy
• florid
• sanguine
• rubicund
• glowing
• blooming
• flush
• pink
• full-blooded
• blushing
• flushed

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• ruddy
• red
• rosy
• florid
• sanguine
• rubicund
• glowing
• blooming
• flush
• pink
• full-blooded
• blushing
• flushed

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2

as in gaunt

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 & Similar Words

• gaunt
• haggard
• skeletal
• emaciated
• bony
• starved
• starving
• lanky
• scrawny
• thin
• lank
• skinny
• hungry
• rawboned
• sinewy
• boney
• undernourished
• scraggy
• underfed
• wizened
• wasted
• withered
• shriveled
• famished
• shrivelled
• spare

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• healthy
• burly
• brawny
• beefy
• husky
• corpulent
• fleshy
• hale
• rotund
• pudgy
• hearty
• fat
• plump
• fit
• stocky
• obese
• chubby
• portly
• heavyset
• overweight
• thickset
• tubby
• flabby
• soft
• roly-poly

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• healthy
• burly
• brawny
• beefy
• husky
• corpulent
• fleshy
• hale
• rotund
• pudgy
• hearty
• fat
• plump
• fit
• stocky
• obese
• chubby
• portly
• heavyset
• overweight
• thickset
• tubby
• flabby
• soft
• roly-poly

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