Cadaverous: Definition and part of speech

Cadaverous

  1. a. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.
  2. a. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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