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Anorexic

//ænəˈɹɛksɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to, or suffering from, anorexia nervosa.

    "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. 2
    Thin, skinny, insubstantial. broadly

    "He was also a poet on 'L' plates having published one very slim (to the point of anorexic) collection of verse."

  3. 3
    Having very little to no appetite (a symptom that occurs in various diseases).
Adjective
  1. 1
    suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Somebody suffering from anorexia nervosa.

    "The hospital strictly monitored the advertising materials the bulimics and anorexics were allowed to see."

  2. 2
    a person suffering from anorexia nervosa wordnet
  3. 3
    A medicine which suppresses appetite.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From anorexia + -ic.

Etymology 2

From anorexia + -ic.

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