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anorexic, anorectic

n. a person suffering from anorexia nervosa

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anorexic, anorectic

adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

anorectic, anorexigenic

adj. causing loss of appetite; "an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug"

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bladed

adj. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite"

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

compressed, flat

adj. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed

adj. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

slender, slight, slim, svelte

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

gangling, gangly, lanky

adj. tall and thin

lank, spindly

adj. long and lean

rawboned

adj. having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"

twiggy, twiglike

adj. thin as a twig

scarecrowish

adj. resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"

skinny

adj. of or relating to or resembling skin

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken

adj. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"

slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted

adj. having a small waist

spare, trim

adj. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

spindle-legged, spindle-shanked

adj. having long slender legs

wiry

adj. of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"

wisplike, wispy

adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

abortifacient

adj. causing abortion

activating(a), actuating(a)

adj. causing motion or action or change

causal

adj. involving or constituting a cause; causing; "a causal relationship between scarcity and higher prices"

conducive, contributing(a), contributive, contributory, tributary

adj. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; "working conditions are not conducive to productivity"; "the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city"; "a contributory factor"

errhine

adj. causing nasal discharge

inductive, inducive

adj. inducing or influencing; leading on; "inductive to the sin of Eve"- John Milton

motivative(a), motive(a), motivating

adj. impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments"

motive(a), motor

adj. causing or able to cause motion; "a motive force"; "motive power"; "motor energy"

precipitating(a)

adj. bringing on suddenly or abruptly; "the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce"

responsible, responsible for(p)

adj. being the agent or cause; "determined who was the responsible party"; "termites were responsible for the damage"

sternutatory

adj. tending to cause sneezing

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