different between cadaveric vs cadaverous

cadaveric

English

Etymology

From French cadavérique.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kad??v???k/, /k??dav???k/
  • (US) IPA(key): /k??dav???k/

Adjective

cadaveric (comparative more cadaveric, superlative most cadaveric)

  1. Pertaining to a corpse.
    • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 157:
      Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens.
  2. Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.
    • 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society 2007, p. 21:
      He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks []

Derived terms

  • cadaveric alkaloid

Translations


Romanian

Etymology

From French cadavérique.

Adjective

cadaveric m or n (feminine singular cadaveric?, masculine plural cadaverici, feminine and neuter plural cadaverice)

  1. cadaveric

Declension

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cadaverous

English

Etymology

cadaver +? -ous

Adjective

cadaverous (comparative more cadaverous, superlative most cadaverous)

  1. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
    • 1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
      Dark blood flowed in the fosse,
      Souls out of Erebus, cadaverous dead ...

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:cadaverous

Translations

See also

  • cadaverously

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