Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cadaverous \Ca*dav"er*ous\, a. [L. cadaverosus.]
   1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale;
      ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.

   2. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead
      body. ``The scent cadaverous.'' -- {Ca*dav"er*ous*ly},
      adv. -- {Ca*dav"er*ous*ness}, n.

Source : WordNet®

cadaverous
     adj : 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" [syn: {bony},
           {emaciated}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal},
            {wasted}]