cadaverous

Questions about cadaverous

What does cadaverous mean?

cadaverous means "very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cadaverous?

cadaverous has 4 syllables: ca-da-ve-rous. The stress falls on "da".

What is another word for cadaverous?

Close synonyms include emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cadaverous a common word?

cadaverous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.