anorexicadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌanəˈrɛksɪk/, U.S.

/ˌænəˈrɛksɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: anorexia n., -ic suffix.

Etymology: < anorexia n. + -ic suffix. Compare earlier anorectic adj., and later anoretic adj.Compare French anorexique (adjective) affected with anorexia (1829 or earlier). In use as noun after French anorexique person with anorexia (1907 in the passage translated in quot. 1907 at sense B., or earlier).

A. adj.

a. Originally: affected with lack or loss of appetite for food; exhibiting reluctance or refusal to eat. In later use chiefly: affected with the condition anorexia nervosa; of, relating to, or characteristic of anorexia nervosa. Cf. anorectic adj. 1.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > eating disorders

bulimic1823

anorectic1894

anorexic1907

bulimarexic1976

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [adjective] > with loss of appetite

off one's oats1873

anorectous1880

anorectic1894

anorexic1907

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > absence of appetite > [adjective] > characterized by lack of appetite

anorexic1907

1849 R. Hull Few Suggestions Consumption i. 2 All is prostration. The stomach anorexic; the liver torpid; the lacteals obstructed.

1876 Practitioner 16 260 Subsequently the animals were listless and anorexic.

1905 S. E. Jelliffe & W. A. White tr. P. Dubois Psychic Treatm. Nerv. Disorders xx. 253 A young girl seventeen years of age, mentally anorexic, vomited for many months almost all that she took.

1939 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 32 158 When an anorexic patient begins to confide her troubles they are always associated with doubts of sexual potency.

1954 K. B. Roberts in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xii. 236 At a time when there is an increased metabolic rate the feverish patient is usually anorexic and will take little to eat.

1987 R. Erdmann & M. Jones Amino Revol. xx. 183 After each course of treatment she staged a recovery, only to relapse back into her anorexic obsessions.

2015 mirror.co.uk (Nexis) 5 Oct. An anorexic student who plummeted to a shocking 5st 7lbs has made a remarkable transformation to become a fit weight trainer.

b. figurative. Lacking substance or body; skimpy, meagre, insubstantial.The use in non-medical contexts is now sometimes considered offensive.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > skimpy

scrimp1681

skimp1775

skimping1775

scrimpy1829

skimpy1842

1979 Financial Times 20 June 17/1 The house for Norman Wisdom's show on Monday night was more than thin. It was positively anorexic.

1988 Institutional Investor 162/3 Lingering expenses..have helped make sale margins anorexic compared with those of industry leaders.

1991 Wine Spectator 31 Aug. 20/3 These were the palates that welcomed the first anorexic generation of trocken wines.

2004 Holiday Which? Winter 28/2 Its anorexic tower hardly rivals Blackpool's.

2004 Digital Photographer No. 24. 62/1 They..have to make the best out of a slim portfolio, an anorexic CV and student budget kit.

c. In hyperbolic use: (of a person) extremely thin; (also) characteristic of extremely thin people.The use in non-medical contexts is now sometimes considered offensive.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin

leanc1000

thinc1000

swonga1300

meagrea1398

empty?c1400

(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405

macilent?a1425

rawc1425

gauntc1440

to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450

leany?a1475

swampc1480

scarrya1500

pinched1514

extenuate1528

lean-fleshed1535

carrion-lean1542

spare1548

lank1553

carrion1565

brawn-fallen1578

raw-bone1590

scraggeda1591

thin-bellied1591

rake-lean1593

bare-boned1594

forlorn1594

Lented1594

lean-looked1597

shotten herring1598

spiny1598

starved1598

thin-belly1598

raw-boned1600

larbar1603

meagry?1603

fleshless1605

scraggy1611

ballow1612

lank-leana1616

skinnya1616

hagged1616

scraggling1616

carrion-like1620

extenuated1620

thin-gutted1620

haggard1630

scrannel1638

leanisha1645

skeletontal1651

overlean1657

emaciated1665

slank1668

lathy1672

emaciate1676

nithered1691

emacerated1704

lean-looking1713

scranky1735

squinny-gut(s)1742

mauger1756

squinny1784

angular1789

etiolated1791

as thin (also lean) as a rail1795

wiry1808

slink1817

scranny1820

famine-hollowed1822

sharp featured1824

reedy1830

scrawny1833

stringy1833

lean-ribbeda1845

skeletony1852

famine-pinched1856

shelly1866

flesh-fallen1876

thinnish1884

all horn and hide1890

unfurnished1893

bone-thin1899

underweight1899

asthenic1925

skin-and-bony1935

skinny-malinky1940

skeletal1952

pencil-neck1960

1981 Washington Post 10 July 41/3 The cover of this one is a very studied take-off on the jazz covers of the '50s, and only the party-poopers among us will notice that the band is quintessential '80s, with its anorexic, Anglophile punkishness.

1985 Sounds 27 July 27/2 Before I came along, people were used to the anorexic look of performers like Bowie.

1989 R. Whiting You gotta have Wa (1990) vii. 148 Pitcher Shigeru Kobayashi, a reedy, anorexic sidearm thrower acquired in the off-season..won twenty-three games.

2002 Time Out 2 Jan. 65/4 The Punta crowd still, largely, consists of preppy-looking rich kids with Pringle jumpers sleeve-knotted at the chest and anorexic fake-blondes who get high on Diet Seven-up.

2010 Independent 6 Oct. 15/4 To us lard-buckets, it's pretty obvious that we're happier than the anorexic ranks of the ‘hangry’.

2. That suppresses or reduces appetite for or consumption of food; of or relating to such suppression or reduction; = anorexiant adj., anorexigenic adj.Cf. also anorectic adj. 2.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicines used to affect nutrition > [adjective] > suppressing the appetite

anorexigenic1948

anorexiant1957

anorectic1958

anorexic1967

1920 G. E. Rehberger Lippincott's Quick Ref. Bk. Med. & Surg. at Obesity Iodine preparations, minute doses of camphor, peppermint lozenges, and menthol tablets are credited with anorexic properties.

1974 A. I. Friedman Fat can be Beautiful xiii. 153 Used an additional tool..these anorexic drugs enabled many patients to lose weight more effectively.

2009 C. A. Nonas & G. D. Fisher Managing Obesity (ed. 2) 128 Medication for weight loss would inhibit the orexigenic peptides or enhance the anorexic peptides.

B. n.

A person affected with anorexia nervosa.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > eating disorders > person

bulimic1886

anorexic1913

binge eater1960

anoretic1961

bulimarexic1976

anorectic1977

1907 S. E. Jelliffe tr. J. Grasset Semi-Insane & Semi-Responsible iii. 175 Thus this author cites an anorexic [Fr. une anorexique] who threatened to starve herself to death, and of whom it was found out in hypnotic sleep that she was haunted by apparitions of her mother who told her to join her in heaven.

1939 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 32 157 The purpose of the anorexic to starve herself is of fundamental importance.

1983 Listener 10 Feb. 17/3 Compulsive runners share the same symptoms as anorexics.

2018 Times (National ed.) (Nexis) 6 Aug. (News section) 4 One former anorexic was able to order three months of prescription slimming pills.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).

单词	anorexic
释义	anorexicadj.n. Brit. /ˌanəˈrɛksɪk/, U.S. /ˌænəˈrɛksɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: anorexia n., -ic suffix. Etymology: < anorexia n. + -ic suffix. Compare earlier anorectic adj., and later anoretic adj.Compare French anorexique (adjective) affected with anorexia (1829 or earlier). In use as noun after French anorexique person with anorexia (1907 in the passage translated in quot. 1907 at sense B., or earlier). A. adj. 1. a. Originally: affected with lack or loss of appetite for food; exhibiting reluctance or refusal to eat. In later use chiefly: affected with the condition anorexia nervosa; of, relating to, or characteristic of anorexia nervosa. Cf. anorectic adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > eating disorders bulimic1823 anorectic1894 anorexic1907 bulimarexic1976 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [adjective] > with loss of appetite off one's oats1873 anorectous1880 anorectic1894 anorexic1907 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > absence of appetite > [adjective] > characterized by lack of appetite anorexic1907 1849 R. Hull Few Suggestions Consumption i. 2 All is prostration. The stomach anorexic; the liver torpid; the lacteals obstructed. 1876 Practitioner 16 260 Subsequently the animals were listless and anorexic. 1905 S. E. Jelliffe & W. A. White tr. P. Dubois Psychic Treatm. Nerv. Disorders xx. 253 A young girl seventeen years of age, mentally anorexic, vomited for many months almost all that she took. 1939 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 32 158 When an anorexic patient begins to confide her troubles they are always associated with doubts of sexual potency. 1954 K. B. Roberts in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xii. 236 At a time when there is an increased metabolic rate the feverish patient is usually anorexic and will take little to eat. 1987 R. Erdmann & M. Jones Amino Revol. xx. 183 After each course of treatment she staged a recovery, only to relapse back into her anorexic obsessions. 2015 mirror.co.uk (Nexis) 5 Oct. An anorexic student who plummeted to a shocking 5st 7lbs has made a remarkable transformation to become a fit weight trainer. b. figurative. Lacking substance or body; skimpy, meagre, insubstantial.The use in non-medical contexts is now sometimes considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > skimpy scrimp1681 skimp1775 skimping1775 scrimpy1829 skimpy1842 1979 Financial Times 20 June 17/1 The house for Norman Wisdom's show on Monday night was more than thin. It was positively anorexic. 1988 Institutional Investor 162/3 Lingering expenses..have helped make sale margins anorexic compared with those of industry leaders. 1991 Wine Spectator 31 Aug. 20/3 These were the palates that welcomed the first anorexic generation of trocken wines. 2004 Holiday Which? Winter 28/2 Its anorexic tower hardly rivals Blackpool's. 2004 Digital Photographer No. 24. 62/1 They..have to make the best out of a slim portfolio, an anorexic CV and student budget kit. c. In hyperbolic use: (of a person) extremely thin; (also) characteristic of extremely thin people.The use in non-medical contexts is now sometimes considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin leanc1000 thinc1000 swonga1300 meagrea1398 empty?c1400 (as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405 macilent?a1425 rawc1425 gauntc1440 to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450 leany?a1475 swampc1480 scarrya1500 pinched1514 extenuate1528 lean-fleshed1535 carrion-lean1542 spare1548 lank1553 carrion1565 brawn-fallen1578 raw-bone1590 scraggeda1591 thin-bellied1591 rake-lean1593 bare-boned1594 forlorn1594 Lented1594 lean-looked1597 shotten herring1598 spiny1598 starved1598 thin-belly1598 raw-boned1600 larbar1603 meagry?1603 fleshless1605 scraggy1611 ballow1612 lank-leana1616 skinnya1616 hagged1616 scraggling1616 carrion-like1620 extenuated1620 thin-gutted1620 haggard1630 scrannel1638 leanisha1645 skeletontal1651 overlean1657 emaciated1665 slank1668 lathy1672 emaciate1676 nithered1691 emacerated1704 lean-looking1713 scranky1735 squinny-gut(s)1742 mauger1756 squinny1784 angular1789 etiolated1791 as thin (also lean) as a rail1795 wiry1808 slink1817 scranny1820 famine-hollowed1822 sharp featured1824 reedy1830 scrawny1833 stringy1833 lean-ribbeda1845 skeletony1852 famine-pinched1856 shelly1866 flesh-fallen1876 thinnish1884 all horn and hide1890 unfurnished1893 bone-thin1899 underweight1899 asthenic1925 skin-and-bony1935 skinny-malinky1940 skeletal1952 pencil-neck1960 1981 Washington Post 10 July 41/3 The cover of this one is a very studied take-off on the jazz covers of the '50s, and only the party-poopers among us will notice that the band is quintessential '80s, with its anorexic, Anglophile punkishness. 1985 Sounds 27 July 27/2 Before I came along, people were used to the anorexic look of performers like Bowie. 1989 R. Whiting You gotta have Wa (1990) vii. 148 Pitcher Shigeru Kobayashi, a reedy, anorexic sidearm thrower acquired in the off-season..won twenty-three games. 2002 Time Out 2 Jan. 65/4 The Punta crowd still, largely, consists of preppy-looking rich kids with Pringle jumpers sleeve-knotted at the chest and anorexic fake-blondes who get high on Diet Seven-up. 2010 Independent 6 Oct. 15/4 To us lard-buckets, it's pretty obvious that we're happier than the anorexic ranks of the ‘hangry’. 2. That suppresses or reduces appetite for or consumption of food; of or relating to such suppression or reduction; = anorexiant adj., anorexigenic adj.Cf. also anorectic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicines used to affect nutrition > [adjective] > suppressing the appetite anorexigenic1948 anorexiant1957 anorectic1958 anorexic1967 1920 G. E. Rehberger Lippincott's Quick Ref. Bk. Med. & Surg. at Obesity Iodine preparations, minute doses of camphor, peppermint lozenges, and menthol tablets are credited with anorexic properties. 1974 A. I. Friedman Fat can be Beautiful xiii. 153 Used an additional tool..these anorexic drugs enabled many patients to lose weight more effectively. 2009 C. A. Nonas & G. D. Fisher Managing Obesity (ed. 2) 128 Medication for weight loss would inhibit the orexigenic peptides or enhance the anorexic peptides. B. n. A person affected with anorexia nervosa. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > eating disorders > person bulimic1886 anorexic1913 binge eater1960 anoretic1961 bulimarexic1976 anorectic1977 1907 S. E. Jelliffe tr. J. Grasset Semi-Insane & Semi-Responsible iii. 175 Thus this author cites an anorexic [Fr. une anorexique] who threatened to starve herself to death, and of whom it was found out in hypnotic sleep that she was haunted by apparitions of her mother who told her to join her in heaven. 1939 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 32 157 The purpose of the anorexic to starve herself is of fundamental importance. 1983 Listener 10 Feb. 17/3 Compulsive runners share the same symptoms as anorexics. 2018 Times (National ed.) (Nexis) 6 Aug. (News section) 4 One former anorexic was able to order three months of prescription slimming pills. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < adj.n.1849
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