"cadaverous" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more cadaverous [comparative], most cadaverous [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin cadāverōsus; compare Middle English cadaverous (“gangrenous, mortified”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|cadāverōsus}} Latin cadāverōsus, {{cog|enm|cadaverous|t=gangrenous, mortified}} Middle English cadaverous (“gangrenous, mortified”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} cadaverous (comparative more cadaverous, superlative most cadaverous)
  1. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver. Categories (topical): Appearance Synonyms: cadaverous, corpse-like, unburied Hypernyms: physique, sickly, thin, weak Derived forms: cadaverousness Related terms: cadaverously, like death warmed over, corpse, thin person Translations (cadaverous): мъртвешки (mǎrtveški) (Bulgarian), cadavèric (Catalan), cadavérique (French), cadavérico (Galician), cadāverōsus (Latin), lavoniškas (Lithuanian), cadavérico (Portuguese), cadaveric (Romanian), тру́пный (trúpnyj) (Russian), cadavérico (Spanish)
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