cadaverously

Examples

• All

• "Grandmother?" Red Star, a five-year-old girl with wide brown eyes and a cadaverously thin face, called.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Paul, cadaverously skinny, his long black hair in a ponytail, a golden ring in his left earlobe;

  Fiction book (1994)

• He walked in alone—a cadaverously thin man, stooped, with a grizzled gray-and-ginger beard.

  Fiction book (1995)

• On one of his late afternoon walks, Papa met, outside Fouquet's, a tall, cadaverously thin, dandyish gentleman with a dirty starched collar, an ashplant, and a quarrelsome temper.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The cadaverously thin man struggled to lift the heavy box.

• She looked cadaverously pale after being ill for weeks.

• After the long illness, he appeared cadaverously weak and frail.

Synonyms

L

lifelessly

vscadaverously

1 5.4

In a way that shows no energy or interest

focuses on extreme pallor and thinness rather than lack of movement

A

anemically

vscadaverously

• US

1 8.0

In a weak, pale way showing little energy

is much more extremely pale and thin, like a dead body

Antonyms

V

vigorously

68 3.4

In a strong, energetic way showing a lot of effort

R

robustly

4 4.4

In a strong and forceful way

How Pale

cadaverously

1 9.6

pallidly

1 8.4

faintly

34 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology