adjective
resembling or suggestive of death.
a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table
deathlike,corpse-like,cadaverous,ghostly,ghostlike,ghastly,grim,haggard,ashen,chalky,chalk white,white,pale,pallid,bloodless,colourless,wan,anaemic,pasty,sickly,drained,sapped,like death warmed up,peaky,etiolated
adjective
very pale, thin, or bony.
he was gaunt and cadaverous
(deathly) pale,pallid,white,bloodless,ashen,ashen-faced,ashy,chalky,chalk white,grey,white-faced,whey-faced,waxen,waxy,corpse-like,deathlike,ghostly,very thin,as thin as a rake,bony,skeletal,emaciated,skin-and-bones,scrawny,scraggy,raw-boned,haggard,gaunt,drawn,pinched,hollow-cheeked,hollow-eyed,like death warmed up,like a bag of bones,anorexic,spindle-shanked,livid,etiolated,lymphatic,exsanguinous,starveling,macilent
adjective
Relating to, characterized by, or suffering from anorexia.
Women with bulimic or anorexic female relatives are four to five times more likely to develop the disorder, and twin studies reveal that the genetic risk factor may be as high as 58 percent.
pale,deathly pale,pallid,white,bloodless,ashen,ashen-faced,ashy,chalky,chalk white,grey,white-faced,whey-faced,waxen,waxy,corpse-like,deathlike,ghostly
noun
A person suffering from anorexia.
Some of the youngest sufferers are the children of anorexics and bulimics, many of whom raise their families with bizarre attitudes towards food.
adjective
Relating to, characterized by, or suffering from anorexia.
Women with bulimic or anorexic female relatives are four to five times more likely to develop the disorder, and twin studies reveal that the genetic risk factor may be as high as 58 percent.
pale,deathly pale,pallid,white,bloodless,ashen,ashen-faced,ashy,chalky,chalk white,grey,white-faced,whey-faced,waxen,waxy,corpse-like,deathlike,ghostly
noun
A person suffering from anorexia.
Some of the youngest sufferers are the children of anorexics and bulimics, many of whom raise their families with bizarre attitudes towards food.
adjective
Relating to, characterized by, or suffering from anorexia.
Women with bulimic or anorexic female relatives are four to five times more likely to develop the disorder, and twin studies reveal that the genetic risk factor may be as high as 58 percent.
pale,deathly pale,pallid,white,bloodless,ashen,ashen-faced,ashy,chalky,chalk white,grey,white-faced,whey-faced,waxen,waxy,corpse-like,deathlike,ghostly
noun
A person suffering from anorexia.
Some of the youngest sufferers are the children of anorexics and bulimics, many of whom raise their families with bizarre attitudes towards food.
noun
A fine-grained, translucent form of gypsum, typically white, often carved into ornaments.
The stones used include red jasper, white oriental alabaster, yellow chalcedony, and green gabbro.
adjective
Made of alabaster.
the gilded alabaster tomb of Sir Anthony Browne
white,pallid,pasty,pasty-faced,wan,colourless,anaemic,bloodless,washed out,peaky,peakish,ashen,ashen-faced,ashy,chalky,chalk white,grey,whitish,white-faced,whey-faced,waxen,waxy,blanched,drained,pinched,green,ghastly,sickly,sallow,as white as a sheet,as white as a ghost,deathly pale,cadaverous,corpse-like,looking as if one had seen a ghost
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