Haggard vs Cadaverous - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between haggard and cadaverous

is that haggard is looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition while cadaverous is corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.

As a noun haggard

is a stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

haggard

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

* Dryden

Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.

Pale and haggard faces.

A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.

The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard .

Wild or untamed

a haggard or refractory hawk

Derived terms

* haggardly * haggardness

Noun

(en noun)

(dialect, Isle of Mann, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

"He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard" [http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm]

(falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.

A "haggard" is a bird captured as an adult and therefore of unknown age; often, the law prohibits capturing birds of mating age. Falconry Pro

* 1599 ,

*:No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;

*:I know her spirits are as coy and wild

*:As haggards of the rock.

(falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

(obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.

* Shakespeare

I have loved this proud disdainful haggard .

(obsolete) A hag.

(Garth)

References

cadaverous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

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Synonyms

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