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anemic

anemic

English

Alternative forms

anaemic (UK)
anæmic (UK, rare)

Adjective

anemic ‎(comparative more anemic, superlative most anemic)

Of or pertaining to anemia.
(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)
Dutch: anemisch
Finnish: aneeminen (fi), vähäverinen (fi)
French: anémique (fr) m, f
Galician: anémico
Icelandic: blóðlaus m
Irish: anaemach, neamhfholach

Italian: anemico (it)
Norman: anémique m, f
Portuguese: anémico (Portugal), anêmico (pt) (Brazil)
Russian: анеми́чный (ru) ‎(anemíčnyj), малокро́вный (ru) ‎(malokróvnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: анѐмичан

Roman: anèmičan (sh)
Spanish: anémico
Swedish: anemisk (sv)
Yiddish: אַנעמיש ‎(anemish)

Noun

anemic ‎(plural anemics)

An individual who has anemia.

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