anorexic

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ænəˈɹɛksɪk/

anorexic (comparative more anorexic, superlative most anorexic)

1. Pertaining to, or suffering from anorexia nervosa.
2. (by extension) Thin, skinny, insubstantial.
   • 2005, Kathy Lette, A Stitch in Time, page 17:

     He was also a poet on 'L' plates having published one very slim (to the point of anorexic) collection of verse.

• anorectic
• See also Thesaurus:scrawny

anorexic (plural anorexics)

1. Somebody suffering from anorexia nervosa.
2. A medicine which suppresses appetite.

• anorectic