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Synonyms for cadaverous

  • adjective

Most common

wasted pale wan skeletal spectral cadaveric exsanguineous hueless

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Wasted

thin, wasted, pale, wan, skeletal, pinched, ghastly, haggard, gaunt, emaciated, bloodless, ashy, pallid, etiolated, colorless US, colourless UK, livid

2. Corpse-like

death-like, dead, corpse-like

Other

spectral, exsanguineous, hueless, cadaveric

Antonyms

animate

All antonyms of cadaverous →

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.

Related words

Is a kind of
physique sickly thin weak

Example sentences

  • wasted It's a shame the way natural resources are wasted.
  • pale I said to her, "You look pale. Are you all right?"
  • wan I only wan to avoid saying the wrong thing.
  • skeletal His abstemious habits gave him a skeletal appearance.
  • spectral They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
cadaverousrising
wastedrising
palerising
wansteady
skeletalsteady
spectralsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
wan1
4 letters
dead1, thin1, pale1, ashy2
5 letters
livid2, gaunt1
6 letters
wasted2, pallid2
7 letters
pinched1, ghastly2, haggard2, hueless
8 letters
spectral2, skeletal3
9 letters
colorless3, emaciated5, bloodless2, cadaveric, etiolated
10 letters
colourless
13 letters
exsanguineous

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ashy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
cadavérique
Italiano
cadaverico