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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
anemic
adjective
1: lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball" [syn: {anaemic}]
2: relating to anemia or suffering from anemia [syn: {anaemic}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "anemic": achromatic, achromic, allergic, apoplectic, arthritic, ashen, ashy, asthenic, bilious, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, cancerous, chicken, chloranemic, chlorotic, colicky, colorless, consumptive, cowardly, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, drooping, droopy, dropsical, dull, dyspeptic, edematous, effete, encephalitic, epileptic, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, faintish, fallow, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, floppy, ghastly, gone, gray, gutless, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, imbecile, impotent, lackluster, languid, languorous, laryngitic, leaden, leprous, limber, limp, listless, livid, luetic, lurid, lusterless, lustless, malarial, malignant, marrowless, mat, mealy, measly, muddy, nephritic, nerveless, neuralgic, neuritic, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, palsied, paralytic, pasty, phthisic, pithless, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, pooped, powerless, rachitic, rheumatic, rickety, rubbery, sallow, sapless, scorbutic, scrofulous, sickly, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, strengthless, tabetic, tabid, tallow-faced, toneless, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, uncolored, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, wan, washed-out, waterish, watery, waxen, weak, weakly, whey-faced, white
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