Cadaveric

//kəˈdavəɹɪk// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to a corpse.

    "Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens."

  2. 2
    Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.

    "He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to a cadaver or corpse wordnet

Synonyms

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cadaverous

Example

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"Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens."

Etymology

From French cadavérique.

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