ANOREXIC Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

anorexic

adjective

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Recent Examples of anorexic Along with icons of anorexic saints, my childhood home was a place of books. — Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025 At once too frigid and too promiscuous within the terms of early psychoanalysis, the anorexic woman’s appetites (or lack thereof) were a threat to the cultural order. — Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024 From much of the plaza, yet another anorexic supertall for squillionaires, rising at 29th Street, now blots it out. — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023 In February, her daughter passed out—probably from low blood pressure, a common health complication in anorexic patients—and went to the emergency room. — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 21 June 2021 See All Example Sentences for anorexic

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Adjective

Beyond that, signs' late and early parts are called anorectic and critical degrees.

— Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024

Definition of anorectic

Adjective

Would someone have noticed his emaciated appearance, his foreign features, and been suspicious enough to call the authorities?

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Bean Found as an emaciated stray eating trash at a gas station in Nogales, Mexico, Bean is now a healthy rescue pug who has never met a stranger and adores spending time with cats, kittens, babies, and toddlers.

— Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of emaciated

Adjective

The group last played a public show on July 18 in Valdosta, Georgia, following an uneven few months where Love appeared gaunt and sang in a raspy, diminished voice.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
Apple was widely criticized in the late 2000s for not volunteering more information about Jobs’ health, especially as concerns about his gaunt appearance battered the company’s shares.

— Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of gaunt

Adjective

Its signature Song Bag translates the skeletal geometry of traditional Chinese kites into a soft, structured leather vessel.

— Footwear News, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
Kansas City police were called to investigate skeletal remains that were found near the River Market Wednesday morning.

— Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of skeletal

Adjective

Xbox, despite its increasingly haggard reputation, has announced backwards compatibility for PC.

— Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Rocking back and forth nervously during a television appearance, a haggard-looking Diaz-Canel acknowledged the same talks, which his government had denied were taking place just days before.

— Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026

Definition of haggard

Adjective

The lanky 20-year-old power forward is an elite puck transporter (98th percentile for zone entries), has outrageously quick hands and can break games open with his creativity and ability to beat defenders one-on-one.

— Harman Dayal, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Verity ultimately transforms into a tall, lanky monster chasing ThatMob in the dark.

— Owen Carry, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of lanky

Adjective

Yvette opens the door to Pizza City’s lone toilet, engulfing them in a bouquet of Pine-Sol and damp cinderblock and the earthier smell of the small weedy lot where the bathroom’s rear wall ought to be.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026
Jeon-Gi lives with his Korean family in Building A, scrapping with kids from other immigrant families in a weedy playground.

— Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026

Definition of weedy

Adjective

Die große Nacht im Eimer (The Big Night Down the Drain), made that year, depicts a figure of indiscernible age with a cadaverous pallor and yellow splotches, brandishing an oversized phallus beneath a soot-black veil.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
As the hulking creature, the Australian star appears to have pale, cadaverous skin with lacerations across it and long, stringy hair.

— Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025

Definition of cadaverous

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