cadaverous

  • (s) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
    • emaciated bony hands
    • a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
    • eyes were haggard and cavernous
    • small pinched faces
    • kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
    bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted,
  • (a) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
    • we had long anticipated his cadaverous end
    cadaveric,

Synonyms

bony emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal wasted cadaveric

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