cadaverous
adjective
[ kəˈdav(ə)rəs ]
• very pale, thin, or bony.
• "he was gaunt and cadaverous"
Similar:
(deathly) pale,
pallid,
white,
bloodless,
ashen,
ashen-faced,
ashy,
chalky,
chalk white,
grey,
white-faced,
whey-faced,
waxen,
waxy,
corpse-like,
deathlike,
ghostly,
very thin,
as thin as a rake,
bony,
skeletal,
emaciated,
skin-and-bones,
scrawny,
scraggy,
raw-boned,
haggard,
gaunt,
drawn,
pinched,
hollow-cheeked,
hollow-eyed,
like death warmed up,
like a bag of bones,
anorexic,
spindle-shanked,
livid,
etiolated,
lymphatic,
exsanguinous,
starveling,
macilent,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin cadaverosus, from cadaver ‘corpse’.
