of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; we had long anticipated his cadaverous end

[ Syn: cadaveric ]

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 ]