cadaverous
adjective
his cadaverous face |
a tall, cadaverous figure:
very thin, bony, skeletal, emaciated, as thin as a rake, skin-and-bones, scrawny, scraggly, rawboned, haggard, gaunt, drawn, pinched, hollow-cheeked, hollow-eyed;
pale, deathly pale, pallid, white, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk white, gray, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, corpselike, deathlike, ghostly;
dated spindle-shanked;
rare livid, etiolated, lymphatic, exsanguinous, starveling, macilent.
▷antonyms rosy, florid; fat, plump.