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Lacking vigour
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anaemic
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Word definitions for anaemic in dictionaries
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] ||
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context British spelling English) (alternative spelling of anemic English) n. (context British spelling English) (alternative spelling of anemic English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1840; see anaemia + -ic . Figurative sense by 1898.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By comparison the seemingly safe approach is anaemic and superficial - it does not really engage pupils. ▪ It is commonly asymptomatic in anaemic patients. ▪ It may be used to supplement the action of the indicated remedy ...
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.