Pro-ed

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Promoting or encouraging eating disorders. not-comparable

    "Researchers from the university's School of Interactive Computing combed through 2.5 million pro-ED posts from 2011 to 2014, to study how the community reacted to Instagram's moderation. / The 17 pro-ED terms which were in[i]tially moderated by Instagram were adapted into hundreds of new words."

Example

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"Researchers from the university's School of Interactive Computing combed through 2.5 million pro-ED posts from 2011 to 2014, to study how the community reacted to Instagram's moderation. / The 17 pro-ED terms which were in[i]tially moderated by Instagram were adapted into hundreds of new words."

Etymology

From pro- + ED (“eating disorder”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.