cadaverous
/kəˈdævərəs/adjective
उच्चारण कडैवरस
शव-जैसा, कृशकाय, पीला
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adjective
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literary
(of a person) extremely pale, thin and looking ill
शव-जैसा, कृशकाय, पीला
- a cadaverous face
- After weeks of fever, his cadaverous face frightened his visitors.
- The patient looked cadaverous after months in hospital.
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- His cadaverous figure appeared in the doorway.
- Her cadaverous cheeks worried everyone in the family.
◇Word family
cadaver noun
≈Synonyms and antonyms
AaSpelling
ca·dav·er·ous
?Which word?
Keep the very-thin-and-pale words together: cadaverous (like a dead body), gaunt, emaciated, skeletal, wan (pale and tired), pallid.
बहुत दुबले और पीले के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: cadaverous (शव जैसा), gaunt, emaciated, skeletal, wan (पीला और थका), pallid।
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One-word substitution
A dead body is a corpse or cadaver; an animal's dead body a carcass.
मृत शरीर corpse या cadaver; जानवर का शव carcass।