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Synonyms for anemic

  • adjective
  • American English

Most common

weak feeble low effete

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Weak — weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness

weak, feeble, low, effete, languid, under-oxygenated, enervated, impotent, debilitated, faint

Other

anemial rare

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.

    Near-synonyms: enervated, underoxygenated

Related words

Other spellings
anaemic UK

Example sentences

  • feeble The feeble patient is suffering from stomach cancer.
  • effete The critics dismissed the film as an effete imitation of earlier, bolder works.
  • enervated Tom felt too enervated to resist.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
anemicsteady
feeblesteady
effetesteady
enervatedrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
low1
4 letters
weak1
5 letters
faint1
6 letters
feeble2, effete2
7 letters
languid2, anemial
8 letters
impotent3
9 letters
enervated
11 letters
debilitated5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (feeble2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
anémique
Italiano
anemico
Deutsch
anämisch