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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anaemic
adjective
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▪ 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 in such anaemic or malnourished people.
▪ One third of the population is clinically anaemic and 80% of children under 5 years of age suffer from malnutrition.
▪ Within minutes it's proved the baby is anaemic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anaemic

Anaemic \A*n[ae]m"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to an[ae]mia. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anaemic

c.1840; see anaemia + -ic. Figurative sense by 1898.

Wiktionary
anaemic

a. (context British spelling English) (alternative spelling of anemic English) n. (context British spelling English) (alternative spelling of anemic English)

WordNet
anaemic

  1. adj. relating to anemia or suffering from anemia [syn: anemic]

  2. 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.