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| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathly, emaciated, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, sallow, shadowy, sick, spectral, thin, wan, wasted, bag of bones, deathlike, exsanguinous, peaky, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
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| Main Entry: | ashen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gray |
| Synonyms: | anemic, blanched, cadaverous, colorless, ghastly, gray, leaden, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, white |
| Main Entry: | emaciated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undernourished; thin |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, attenuate, bony, cadaverous, consumptive, famished, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, peaked, scrawny, skinny, starved, underfed, wasted, wizened, atrophied, attenuated, lank, like a bag of bones, pinched, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin-and-bones, thin as rail |
| Antonyms: | fat, heavy, overweight, plump, overnourished |
| Main Entry: | gaunt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skinny |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lean, meager, peaked, rawboned, scrawny, skeleton, spare, thin, wasted, attenuated, lank, like a bag of bones, peaky, pinched, scraggy, skeletal, skin and bones |
| Antonyms: | plump, thick, well-nourished |
| Main Entry: | ghastly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrible, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, corpselike, deathlike, horrendous, horrid, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | ghostly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, divine, eerie, ghastly, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantom, scary, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird, apparitional, corpselike, deathlike, eidolic, ghostlike, phantasmal, vampiric, wraithlike, wraithy |
| Main Entry: | macabre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eerie; deathlike |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, deathly, dreadful, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, lurid, morbid, offensive, scary, spooky, terrible, unearthly, weird, horrid, spookish |
| Notes: | macabre means shockingly repellent or inspiring horror; bizarre means odd or unusual |
| Antonyms: | common, living, normal |
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, blanched, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, dim, dull, faded, faint, feeble, ghastly, gray, haggard, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid, lurid, pallid, pasty, poor, sallow, sick, sickly, spectral, thin, unsubstantial, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, white, ashy, bleached, deathlike, doughy, waxlike, whitish |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, glowing, radiant |
| Main Entry: | wan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | colorless, weak |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, blanched, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, faint, feeble, ghastly, haggard, ineffective, ineffectual, livid, pale, pallid, pasty, peaked, sickly, washed-out, waxen, white, worn, ashy, bilious, bleached, discolored, forceless |
| Antonyms: | colorful, flushed, strong |
| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without hue |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, anemic, ashen, blanched, cadaverous, drab, dull, faded, flat, ghastly, livid, lurid, neutral, pale, sickly, wan, waxen, white, achromic, ashy, bleached, doughy, uncolored, washed out |
| Antonyms: | brilliant, colored, colorful, motley, rich, stimulating, vibrant, vivid |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer alive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, buried, cadaverous, checked out, cold, cut off, deceased, defunct, departed, done for*, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, inanimate, inert, late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace, spiritless, stiff, unanimated, wasted |
| Antonyms: | alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living, subsisting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
| Synonyms: | appalling, cadaverous, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive |
| Antonyms: | animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine, light, slender |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, beanpole*, bony*, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, fragile, gangling, gaunt, haggard, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pole*, puny*, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, rickety, scrawny, shadow, skinny, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, starved, stick*, subtle, threadlike, underweight, wan, wasted, wizened, attenuated, beanstalk, featherweight, gangly, lank, pinched, reedy, scraggy, shriveled, skeletal, stalky, stilt, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished |
| Antonyms: | dense, fat, heavy, inflated, obese, thick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bloodless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, cadaverous, chalky, colorless, ghostly, lifeless, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, wan, watery |
| Antonyms: | blushing, flushed, rosy, ruddy, sanguine |
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| Main Entry: | no color |
| Part of Speech: | |
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Adjectives: |
cold, faint, light, white, achromatic, achromic, allagrugous, aplanatic, ashy, blond, cadaverous, colorless, dead, dingy, discolored, dull, dun, etiolated, exsanguine, fair, ghastly, glassy, hueless, lackluster, leaden, pale, pale, pale as a corpse, pale as a ghost, pale as a witch, pale as ashes, pale as death, pallid, sallow, tallow, wan, xanthochroid
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| Main Entry: | ugliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
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evil, bald, beautiless, bufoniform, cadaverous, clumsy, crooked, curtailed of its fair proportions, deathlike, dingy, discolored, disfigured, dumpy, foul, frightful, gaudy, gaunt, gawky, ghastly, ghostlike, graceless, grim, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, haggard, hard, hard, homely, horrible, horrid, hulking, hulky, ill, ill, ill, inelegant, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, not fit to be seen, odious, ordinary, plain, repellent, repulsive, rickety, rough, rude, rugged, seemless, shapeless, shocking, sightless, slouching, squalid, stiff, ugglesome, ugly, ugly as a dead monkey, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a toad, ugly as sin, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, uncanny, uncomely, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unlovely, unornamental, unprepossessing, unseemly, unshapely, unsightly, unwieldy
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