Word Meanings - CADAVEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. 2. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. "The scent cadaverous." -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CADAVEROUS)

• Ghastly
• Deathlike
• grim
• cadaverous
• spectral
• pallid
• hideous
• shocking
• Pale
• Pallid
• faint
• dim
• undefined
• etiolated
• sallow
• Spectral
• Ghostly
• ghastly
• shadowy
• visionary
• illusionary

Related words: (words related to CADAVEROUS)

• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• GHASTLY
  gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• CADAVEROUS
  1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. 2. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. "The scent cadaverous." -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ness, n.
• PALLIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
• ETIOLATION
  Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease. Dunglison. (more info) 1. The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.
• SPECTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis. Spectral lemur. See Tarsius. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty. He that feels timid at the spectral form of evil is not the man
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• ETIOLATE
  To become pale through disease or absence of light. (more info) 1. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• SHOCK
  A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set
• SPECTRALLY
  In the form or manner of a specter.
• UNDEFINE
  To make indefinite; to obliterate or confuse the definition or limitations of.
• HIDEOUS
  hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. egidi horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, 1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
• FAINTLING
  Timorous; feeble-minded. "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot.
• SALLOWNESS
  The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison.
• IMPALLID
  To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• DISALLOWABLE
  Not allowable; not to be suffered. Raleigh. -- Dis`al*low"a*ble*ness, n.