ANORETIC Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

anorectic

adjective

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Recent Examples of anorectic Beyond that, signs' late and early parts are called anorectic and critical degrees. — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024

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In 2022, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer released Corsage, the excellent feminist re-reading of the life of 19th century Empress Elizabeth, known as Sissi, with Vicki Krieps as the eccentric, anorexic empress and Florian Teichtmeister as her philandering husband, Franz Joseph I.

— Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 15 May 2026
His maternal grandmother was anorexic.

— Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026

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Falling scaffolding at 14th and Peachtree A skeletal, half-finished building in Midtown that has sat neglected for five years has gotten so bad, City Council members approved a measure to impose a blight tax on it earlier this year.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
Since 2004, when exhumation and analysis of skeletal remains began for 49 Medici family tombs as part of the Medici Project, various studies have confirmed malaria as the cause of Francesco’s demise.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 15 July 2026

Definition of skeletal

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Among those transferred out was Flora, a 10-year-old brindle shepherd who the organization said came in emaciated and missing her left front leg.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2026
Police found Nola’s emaciated body wrapped in plastic inside a suitcase.

— Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026

Definition of emaciated

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The church’s punishment, however, delivered in front of the congregants, is an eerie ritual performed by a gaunt, severe visitor (Nicholas Hope).

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
Brig is in the Upper Valais, a gaunt and conservative place where the inhabitants speak Walliser German, an Alpine dialect that many Swiss people find unintelligible.

— Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Definition of gaunt

Adjective

Xbox, despite its increasingly haggard reputation, has announced backwards compatibility for PC.

— Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Rocking back and forth nervously during a television appearance, a haggard-looking Diaz-Canel acknowledged the same talks, which his government had denied were taking place just days before.

— Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026

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