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anorexic

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Synonyms & Antonyms of anorexic

as in emaciated, gaunt

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for anorexic

anorectic
(also anoretic),
cadaverous,
emaciated,
gaunt,
haggard,
pinched,
skeletal,
wasted,
wizened

lank,
lanky,
rangy,
reedy,
spindling,
spindly,
stringy,
twiggy,
waspish,
weedy

meager
(or meagre),
puny,
slight

angular,
rawboned,
scraggy,
scrawny,
sinewy,
wiry

sylphlike,
willowy

clean-limbed,
trim

bony
(also boney),
fatless,
lean,
lithe,
skinny,
slender,
slim,
spare,
svelte,
thin

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for anorexic

chubby,
corpulent,
fat,
gross,
obese,
overweight,
plump,
portly,
rotund,
tubby

beefy,
bulky,
chunky,
fleshy,
heavy,
heavyset,
stocky,
stout,
thick,
thickset,
weighty

brawny,
burly,
husky

dumpy,
pudgy,
roly-poly,
squat,
stubby

paunchy,
potbellied

flabby,
soft

buxom,
zaftig
(also zoftig)

full,
hippy,
round

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