cadaverous
pronunciation
How to pronounce cadaverous in British English:
UK [kəˈdævərəs]
How to pronounce cadaverous in American English:
US [kəˈdævərəs]
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- Adjective:
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Word Origin
- cadaverous (adj.)
- "looking like a corpse," early 15c., from Latin cadaverosus "corpse-like," from cadaver (see cadaver). Related: Cadaverously; cadaverousness.
Example
- 1. A cadaverous face , hollowed by illness .
- 2. The person that appears because of anaemia cadaverous , eat pear to be able to make your complexion ruddy more .
- 3. In the show , fictionalized slightly as nucky thompson , he 's played by the bug-eyed , slightly cadaverous steve buscemi , another " sopranos " alumnus .
- 4. Have disease much slower often come on with anaemia the symptom that appears above all often is complexion cadaverous tired heart-throb gas is urgent giddy have a headache etc.
- 5. He announces : " if who can have filled these 3 holes inside 3 minutes , can acquire 10 thousand yuan stake . " Right now , see one build sends messy , complexion only the cadaverous , man that wearing glasses went .