anemic

• anaemic (UK)
• anæmic (UK, rare)

From anemia +‎ -ic.

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

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.

anemic (plural anemics)

1. An individual who has anemia.

• Mencia, came in, cinema, iceman

anemic (not comparable)

1. anemic

• anemia