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Definition of Anaemic
1. Adjective. Relating to anemia or suffering from anemia.
2. Adjective. Lacking vigor or energy. "An anemic attempt to hit the baseball"
Definition of Anaemic
1. Adjective. (British spelling) (alternative spelling of anemic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anaemic
1. anaemia [adj] - See also: anaemia
Medical Definition of Anaemic
1. Pertaining to or manifesting the various features of anaemia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anaemic
Literary usage of Anaemic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. German Orthography and Phonology: A Treatise with a Word-list by George Hempl (1897)
"Such words we have called anaemic Words, § 271. As they generally either ...
2) What in one language is expressed by an anaemic word, may in another be ..."
2. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1854)
"A serous effusion into the areolar tissue of the orbit, which is another conjectural
cause of anaemic exophthalmos, could scarcely yield to such a degree of ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1877)
"becomes intensely anaemic without extreme emaciation, and finally dies suddenly
after a slight exertion, about four and a half years from the time when ..."
4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"... and her sad face became the type of a certain anaemic ideal of pre-Raphaelite
female beauty. Her health was never good, and about 1852 she was ..."
5. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"Sensitivity of reflexes, as compared with nerve-trunks, to asphyxial and anaemic
conditions, and to anaesthetic and certain other drugs. ..."
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