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anorexic, anorectic
n. a person suffering from anorexia nervosa
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Adjectives (4)
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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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Synonyms (68)
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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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anorectic
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