All anorectic synonyms
an·o·rec·tic
A a adj anorectic
- undernourished — not nourished with sufficient or proper food to maintain or promote health or normal growth.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- angular — Angular things have shapes that seem to contain a lot of straight lines and sharp points.
- bony — Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones.
- puny — of less than normal size and strength; weak.
- scrawny — excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck.
- shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- skeleton — Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
- skinny — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
- gangly — gangling.
- undersized — smaller than the usual or normal size.
- skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
adjective anorectic
- thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.