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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Marked by loss of appetite.
  • adjective Suppressing or causing loss of appetite.
  • adjective Of or affected with anorexia nervosa.
  • noun One who is affected with anorexia nervosa.
  • noun An anorectic drug.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as anorectous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Characterised by a lack of appetite, especially as suffering from anorexia nervosa; anorexic.
  • adjective Causing a loss of appetite.
  • noun A person suffering from anorexia nervosa; an anorexic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin
  • noun a person suffering from anorexia nervosa
  • adjective causing loss of appetite

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Greek anorektos, without appetite : an-, not; see a– + orektos, verbal adj. of oregein, to reach out for; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Greek ἀνόρεκτος ‘without appetite’, from ἀν- ‘without’ + ὀρέγειν ‘to desire’.

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Examples

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  • Because according to all the thinking I do I should be anorectic by now, by last decade, no by last century.

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  • Because according to all the thinking I do I should be anorectic by now, by last decade, no by last century.

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  • Psychiatric theory cannot deny its participation in the social trajectory of the anorectic discourse, which articulates personal miseries as much as it does public concerns.

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  • (Not to mention the fact that only a monster with a heart of steel or stone could not have missed the fact that Michelle looks better than anyone has a right to in a white, quilted down jacket, when even the most lithe and anorectic supermodels look like fullbacks in the same winter wear.)

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  • He existed strictly on image, an anorectic figure nourished by moonbeams of attention, famous for saying that he loved his worshippers when the truth was he merely sucked the life out of them.

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  • He existed strictly on image, an anorectic figure nourished by moonbeams of attention, famous for saying that he loved his worshippers when the truth was he merely sucked the life out of them.

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  • This was when he was a struggling actor -- before he played Niles Crane, the persnickety younger brother with the unseen anorectic wife on Frasier, one of the two best TV comedy series ever.

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