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Lacking in colour or vitality
Answer for the clue "Lacking in colour or vitality ", 7 letters:
anaemic
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Word definitions for anaemic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1840; see anaemia + -ic . Figurative sense by 1898.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anaemic \A*n[ae]m"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to an[ae]mia. [1913 Webster] ||
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to anemia or suffering from anemia [syn: anemic ] lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball" [syn: anemic ]
Usage examples of anaemic.
Of course, he has to be wheedled out of this, a recipe is written for beefsteaks and porter, the twins are ignominiously expelled from the anaemic bosom, and forced to take prematurely to the bottle, and this prolific mother is saved for future usefulness in the line of maternity.
It was not at all like the Catholic masses of Enderby's youth, dyspeptic Maynooth leprechauns peevish about last week's collections, or the anaemic evensongs of his brief curative Anglicanism, with fine if archaic Jacobean prose apologetically delivered by cricketing rectors and very well-made hymns bleated by conservativeclubcakebaking etiolated housewives with herb gardens.
There is also an anaemic and pimply youth with a sporadic beardlet and a dirty face -- if it is a face -- who is vastly interested: one would say an habitual reader of the "Daily Mail" watching nobility at lunch.