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Definition: Anaemic |
AnaemicAdjective1. Relating to anemia or suffering from anemia. 2. Lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anaemic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
Synonym: AnaemicSynonym: anemic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Anaemic |
| English words defined with "anaemic": Exsanguineous. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Anaemic / by Samuel Van Hoogstraaten. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Anaemic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Anaemic" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 78 | 37,656 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "anaemic": anaemic-looking. | |
Ending with "anaemic": non-anaemic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "anaemic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | anemies. (various references) | |
Albanian | anemik (anemic), i zbehtë (anemic, ashy, cadaverous, dim, dingy, ghastly, light, livid, pale, pallid, paly, peaked, wan), i dobët (anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مصاب بفقر الدم (anemic, exsanguine). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | малокръвен, анемичен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 贫血 (anemic). (various references) | |
Czech | anemický (anemic), chudokrevný. (various references) | |
Danish | anaemihjerte (anaemic heart), anæmisk infarkt (anaemic infarct), anæmisk hypoxi (anaemic hypoxia), anæmisk hypoxæmi (anaemic hypoxaemia), blegt infarkt (anaemic infarct, pale infarct). (various references) | |
Dutch | bloedarm (anemic). (various references) | |
Esperanto | anemia, sangomanka. (various references) | |
French | anémique. (various references) | |
German | blutarm (anemic, anemically, bloodless, penniless), anämisch (anemic). (various references) | |
Greek | αναιμικόσ (anemic), αναιμικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חסר דם, אנמי (pale). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vérszegény (anemic), erőtlen (faint), anémiás. (various references) | |
Italian | anemico (anemic, bloodless). (various references) | |
Korean | 빈혈 (anemic). (various references) | |
Manx | neufollagh, aneemagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anaemicay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anêmico (anemic, exsanguine). (various references) | |
Romanian | anemic (debile, faintly, feeble, weak), anemiat (enfeebled, feeble). (various references) | |
Russian | анемичный (anemic, exsanguine). (various references) | |
Spanish | anémico (anemic). (various references) | |
Swedish | anemisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | anemik (anemic), solgun (anemic, ashen, ashy, bloodless, colorless, colourless, doughy, drooping, faded, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan), kansız (anemic, bloodless), beti benzi kaçmış (anemic, has no color left). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | недокрівний (anemic), анемічний (anemic, exsanguine). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "anaemic" (pronounced 'A*n[ae]m"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: anemia, anemic, caiman, cinema, iceman, maniac. | |
-2 letters: aecia, amain, amice, amine, amnia, amnic, anima, anime, mania, manic, minae, mince. | |
-3 letters: acme, acne, amen, amia, amie, amin, cain, came, cane, cine, emic, mace, main, mana, mane, mean, mica, mice, mien, mina, mine, name, nema, nice. | |
-4 letters: ace, aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, ane, ani, cam. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: ambiance, amnesiac, analcime, calamine, maenadic. | |
+2 letters: acuminate, ambiances, amnesiacs, analcimes, calamined, calamines, campanile, catamenia, cyanamide, egomaniac, imbalance, machinate. | |
+3 letters: adamancies, admittance, affirmance, aldermanic, anamnestic, anemically, animalcule, calumniate, campaigned, campaigner, campaniles, catamenial, chairmaned, cyanamides, demoniacal, egomaniacs, emaciating, emaciation, emancipate, imbalanced, imbalances, macaronies, macerating, maceration, machinable, machinated, machinates, malignance, mechanical, misbalance, naumachiae, naumachies, oceanarium, pacemaking, rampancies, semantical, unacademic, unicameral. | |
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