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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anorexic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And I was getting thin, and she thought I was anorexic.
▪ And, in similar circumstances, the anorexic can always starve herself again.
▪ Both the anorexic and the mystic are impervious to this simple chain of events.
▪ In her paradoxical way, the anorexic is facing up to the truth implicit in her own convictions.
▪ Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual's reactions to an impinging world.
▪ People do not become anorexic simply through slimming too much, nor alcoholic through drinking too much.
▪ The yellow lights on their anorexic columns look mad, like cyclopean triffids, very thin, very tall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anorexic

1876; see anorexia + -ic. The immediate source or model is perhaps French anorexique. As a noun meaning "person with anorexia nervosa" it is attested from 1913.

Wiktionary
anorexic

a. 1 Pertaining to, or suffering from anorexia nervosa. 2 thin, skinny n. 1 Somebody suffering from anorexia nervosa. 2 A medicine which suppresses appetite.

WordNet
anorexic
  1. adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin [syn: anorectic]

  2. n. a person suffering from anorexia nervosa [syn: anorectic]

Usage examples of "anorexic".

Perhaps Anne had paid her fee for some kind of miracle cure for her waiflike, nearly anorexic body.

A young, bored, anorexic girl flicked the pages of a Simone De Beauvoir novel.

The current fad in body design, for humanoform females, was towards a flat-breasted, hipless, buttock-less shape that looked like an anorexic male or a dying lizard.

Beryl would be on her way back to Alaska, and Nance the anorexic was about to become my sister-in-law.

His glaring eyes bulged dangerously The other man looked positively anorexic, with thin, pale arms showing below an olive drab T-shirt that flapped over ancient Army fatigue trousers and scabrous sandals.

I wondered if at one time she had been anorexic: I had known anorexic girls at school.

The secretary notes that anorexic aesthetic -- felt nauseous and did in fact vomit.

But the Mother Superior will talk to Aileen every day, and she told me she's had a lot of experience with anorexics.

The important thing is she knows all about anorexics, and she'll watch Aileen like a hawk and supervise her diet.

Most of our wards are open - the typical stuff: acting-out adolescents, depressives past the high-risk period, anorexics, minor manics, Alzheimer's, cokeheads, and alkies on detox.

For some reason -undoubtedly sociological - those assholes tend to fall into two categories: gordos disgustos or speed freak anorexics.

Feeney said after they'd managed to muscle their way on and snag two of the seats designed for the narrow asses of twelve-year-old anorexics.

Was that the way anorexics felt—as though normal nourishment were stuffing them?

Was that the way anorexics feltas though normal nourishment were stuffing them?

Plus, Cleo knows she'd better come up with a new pose, something that makes her look like a sensitive artiste instead of just another big-eyed anorexic brat.