ANOREXIC Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

anorexic

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Recent Examples of anorexic Along with icons of anorexic saints, my childhood home was a place of books. — Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025 At once too frigid and too promiscuous within the terms of early psychoanalysis, the anorexic woman’s appetites (or lack thereof) were a threat to the cultural order. — Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024 From much of the plaza, yet another anorexic supertall for squillionaires, rising at 29th Street, now blots it out. — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023 In February, her daughter passed out—probably from low blood pressure, a common health complication in anorexic patients—and went to the emergency room. — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 21 June 2021 See All Example Sentences for anorexic

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Adjective

Beyond that, signs' late and early parts are called anorectic and critical degrees.

— Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024

Definition of anorectic

Adjective

The goats’ dire situation first came to light when a former dairy employee raised concerns after witnessing emaciated and sick animals on the property, the former employee told the Idaho Statesman last year.

— Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 16 Oct. 2026
Waggoner said some of the goats were emaciated and suffering from respiratory infections.

— Larry Seward, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of emaciated

Adjective

Throughout late 2025, Beach Boys fans expressed increasing alarm with Love’s increasingly gaunt appearance and raspy singing voice.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2026
This year, a gaunt, ravenous stranger stumbles out of the dark carrying something that eats its hosts from the inside out.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of gaunt

Adjective

In my assessment, the quiet nature of bone loss makes menopause an important time to bring skeletal health into the conversation.

— Priya Bhardwaj, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2026
From an avant-garde temple to to contemporary buildings constructed to resemble skeletal forms, below are architectural marvels that reveal why skeletons remain an enduring muse for architects.

— Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of skeletal

Adjective

The songs on Purdy also have the tone of journal entries, detailing haggard trips to the grocery store, daydreams about his young daughters’ glamorous adult lives, and observations about the banality of oppression.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Xbox, despite its increasingly haggard reputation, has announced backwards compatibility for PC.

— Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of haggard

Adjective

Now is a good time to shorten long, lanky canes that can whip around in Santa Ana and winter winds.

— Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
For two weeks, the lanky forward has sat and watched as the Clippers have let winnable games slip away in the final minutes.

— Janis Carr, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of lanky

Adjective

Plants reseed readily, though not to the point of being weedy, with new plants flowering in their second year.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2026
Yvette opens the door to Pizza City’s lone toilet, engulfing them in a bouquet of Pine-Sol and damp cinderblock and the earthier smell of the small weedy lot where the bathroom’s rear wall ought to be.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of weedy

Adjective

Die große Nacht im Eimer (The Big Night Down the Drain), made that year, depicts a figure of indiscernible age with a cadaverous pallor and yellow splotches, brandishing an oversized phallus beneath a soot-black veil.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
As the hulking creature, the Australian star appears to have pale, cadaverous skin with lacerations across it and long, stringy hair.

— Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025

Definition of cadaverous

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