1. in a manner resembling a corpse; with a deathly, gaunt, or skeletal appearance
Usage: formal; literary

Examples

• The patient looked cadaverously thin after months of illness.
• His cadaverously pale face suggested he had not seen sunlight in weeks.
• She moved cadaverously across the stage, her movements stiff and lifeless.
• The old man's cadaverously sunken cheeks made him appear decades older than his actual age.
• He stared cadaverously ahead, as if drained of all vitality.