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If a person looks cadaverous, they look like a dead body that has been stood up: extremely thin, the skin pale or grey, the face hollow. It is a strong, almost literary word. Use it for illness, hunger, shock, or a ghost in a story — not for someone who stayed up late, and not as a fancy way to say “slim.” It can feel if you say it about a real person in the room, because it compares them to a corpse. Writers like it because it does a lot of work in one word. It comes straight from cadaver, but notice the shift: cadaver is the body; cadaverous is the look, usually on someone still alive.
形容枯槁的、蒼白消瘦得可怕的（像死人一樣）
組成From Latin cadāverōsus; compare older English cadaverous in the sense “gangrenous, mortified.”
同家族的字
- cadaverthe dead human body this look is compared to
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cadaverousadj
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Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
- The speakers were three men, rather beyond middle life. One was pale and cadaverous, as if every feature gave testimony to the length of his vigils and the rigour of his fasts, while straight black hair hanging down on each side his face added to his wild and neglected appearance.
- It may have been the sight of that cadaverous ambition and self-complacent meanness, which showed itself in Paley’s yellow face, and twinkled in his narrow eyes, or it may have been a natural appetite for pleasure and joviality, of which it must be confessed Mr. Pen was exceedingly fond, which deterred that luckless youth from pursuing his designs upon the Bench or the Woolsack with the ardour, or rather steadiness, which is requisite in gentlemen who would climb to those seats of honour.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。