anemic

• anaemic (Commonwealth)
• anæmic (dated)

From anemia + -ic.

• IPA^(key): /əˈniː.mɪk/

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• Rhymes: -iːmɪk

anemic (comparative more anemic, superlative most anemic)

1. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from anemia.
2. (by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.

   Near-synonyms: enervated, underoxygenated

   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 219:

     [H]e was one of those weak creatures full of a shifty cunning - who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves, void of pride, timorous, anæmic, hateful souls.

   • 1938, Henry Goddard Leach, Forum and Century, volume 100, page 156:

     My ordinarily even disposition was shattered, I thought, beyond repair — a condition that was not improved by my utter abhorrence of a diet of infant's food and anemic vegetables.

• nonanemic

• pseudoanemic

anemic (plural anemics)

1. A person who has anemia.

• Mencia, came in, cinema, iceman

anemic (not comparable)

1. anemic

• anemia

Borrowed from French anémique. By surface analysis, anemie +‎ -ic.

anemic m (plural anemici, feminine equivalent anemică)

1. anemic