cadaveric UK /kadəˈvɛɹɪk/US /kəˈdavəɹɪk/ adjective2 •Pertaining to a corpse.Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens. — 2010 •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 […] — 1969 formsmore cadaveric · most cadaveric