anorexic

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English

Etymology

From anorexia +‎ -ic.

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anorexic (comparative more anorexic, superlative most anorexic)

  1. Pertaining to, or suffering from, anorexia nervosa.
    • 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 158:
      I thought of anorexic girls whose puberty has stalled, leaving them crossed between elderly ladies and overburdened children with false smiles, apparently perfect, teeth unstained, until their organs began to fail.
  2. (by extension) Thin, skinny, insubstantial.
    • 2005, Kathy Lette, A Stitch in Time, page 17:
      He was also a poet on 'L' plates having published one very slim (to the point of anorexic) collection of verse.
  3. (medicine) Having very little to no appetite (a symptom that can happen in various diseases).
    Coordinate term: hyporexic

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anorexic (plural anorexics)

  1. Somebody suffering from anorexia nervosa.
    The hospital strictly monitored the advertising materials the bulimics and anorexics were allowed to see.
  2. A medicine which suppresses appetite.

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