Meaning & use
Cadaverous
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Resembling a corpse in being extremely pale, thin, or gaunt.
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After months of illness, his cadaverous face frightened even his closest friends.
The actor lost so much weight for the role that he looked cadaverous.
A note on using this word
It derives from the Latin 'cadaver,' meaning corpse, and is almost always used to describe an unsettling, corpse-like pallor or thinness.
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