Associations to the word «Cadaverous»

Wiktionary

CADAVEROUS, adjective. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.

Dictionary definition

CADAVEROUS, adjective. 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".
CADAVEROUS, adjective. Of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King