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CADAVEROUS
Definition of CADAVEROUS
adjective
Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
CADAVEROUS carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Suggestive of death; corpselike.
“a cadaverous odor.”
adjective
Of corpselike pallor; pallid.
adjective
Emaciated; gaunt.
“a cadaverous mongrel picking through the garbage.”
Pertaining to a dead body; especially, having the appearance or color of the body of a dead person; pale; wan; ghastly.
Where it comes from
From Latin cadāverōsus; compare Middle English cadaverous (“gangrenous, mortified”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,235)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CADAVEROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 131 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CADAVEROUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACDEORSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of CADAVEROUS. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start CADAVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found CADAVEROUS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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