anemic

English

Alternative forms

• anaemic (UK)
• anæmic (UK, rare)

Etymology

From anemia +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌˈni.mɪk/
• Rhymes: -iːmɪk

Adjective

anemic (comparative more anemic, superlative most anemic)

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

Translations

of or pertaining to anemia

• Asturian: anémicu
• Bulgarian: анемичен (bg) (anemičen), малокръвен (bg) (malokrǎven)
• Catalan: anèmic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 贫血 (zh) (pínxuè)

• Dutch: anemisch (nl)
• Esperanto: anemia (eo)
• Finnish: aneeminen (fi), vähäverinen (fi)
• French: anémique (fr) m or f
• Galician: anémico
• German: anämisch (de)
• Greek: αναιμικός (el) (anaimikós)
• Icelandic: blóðlaus m
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• Interlingue:
• Irish: anaemach, neamhfholach
• Italian: anemico (it)
• Macedonian: слабокрвен (slabokrven), анемичен (anemičen)
• Norman: anémique m or f
• Portuguese: anémico (Portugal), anêmico (pt) (Brazil)
• Russian: анеми́чный (ru) (anemíčnyj), малокро́вный (ru) (malokróvnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анѐмичан

  Roman: anèmičan (sh)

• Spanish: anémico (es)
• Swedish: anemisk (sv)
• Welsh: anemaidd, anemig
• Yiddish: אַנעמיש (anemish)

Noun

anemic (plural anemics)

1. An individual who has anemia.

Anagrams

• Mencia, came in, cinema, iceman

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Interlingua

Adjective

anemic (not comparable)

1. anemic

Related terms

• anemia