Anorexic
adjective
A person who suffers from anorexia, a disease where they refuse to eat enough and it makes them dangerously thin.
The anorexic patient was under constant medical supervision.
Often appears as...
- anorexic patient
- anorexic individual
noun
A person who has anorexia, a health condition that makes them avoid food and become very thin.
As an anorexic, she struggled with her body image on a daily basis.
Often appears as...
- an anorexic
- diagnosed as anorexic
adjective
Very skinny, to the point of looking unhealthy.
Her anorexic figure sparked worry among her friends and family.
Often appears as...
- anorexic figure
- anorexic look
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
A person who suffers from anorexia, a disease where they refuse to eat enough and it makes them dangerously thin.
The anorexic patient was under constant medical supervision.
Often appears as...
- anorexic patient
- anorexic individual
noun
A person who has anorexia, a health condition that makes them avoid food and become very thin.
As an anorexic, she struggled with her body image on a daily basis.
Often appears as...
- an anorexic
- diagnosed as anorexic
adjective
Very skinny, to the point of looking unhealthy.
Her anorexic figure sparked worry among her friends and family.
Often appears as...
- anorexic figure
- anorexic look
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Use 'anorexic' to describe someone clinically diagnosed, not just skinny.
They launched a support group for anorexic patients and their families.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Choice
Understand anorexia as a disorder, not a lifestyle or diet choice.
The doctor explained the seriousness of being anorexic.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Context
Use the term with sensitivity; it refers to a serious health issue.
He is trained to counsel anorexic individuals with empathy.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Use 'anorexic' to describe someone clinically diagnosed, not just skinny.
They launched a support group for anorexic patients and their families.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Choice
Understand anorexia as a disorder, not a lifestyle or diet choice.
The doctor explained the seriousness of being anorexic.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Context
Use the term with sensitivity; it refers to a serious health issue.
He is trained to counsel anorexic individuals with empathy.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Use 'anorexic' to describe someone clinically diagnosed, not just skinny.
They launched a support group for anorexic patients and their families.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Choice
Understand anorexia as a disorder, not a lifestyle or diet choice.
The doctor explained the seriousness of being anorexic.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Context
Use the term with sensitivity; it refers to a serious health issue.
He is trained to counsel anorexic individuals with empathy.
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Video examples
Clay Shirky: Institutions...
But when the small group is teenage girls who want to stay anorexic by choice, then we're horrified. What's happened is that the normative goals of the support groups that we're used to, came from the institutions that were framing them, and not from the infrastructure.
Video examples
Clay Shirky: Institutions...
But when the small group is teenage girls who want to stay anorexic by choice, then we're horrified. What's happened is that the normative goals of the support groups that we're used to, came from the institutions that were framing them, and not from the infrastructure.
Example 1 of 1
Quote examples
Alice Greczyn
American Actress
It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on 'Make it or Break It' probably didn't help much. To set the record straight, I certainly do not have an eating disorder. I think as anyone can gather, I love food, and it is not just a front to cover up the fact that I don't eat any.
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Alber Elbaz
Israeli Designer
We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.
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Chantal Akerman
Belgian Director
My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.
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Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.
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Kate Moss
English Model
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Evan Rachel Wood
American Actress
All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.
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Fiona Apple
American Musician
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Carmen Kass
Estonian Model
I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.
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Cameron Russell
American Model
I've never personally been anorexic.
Quote examples
Alice Greczyn
American Actress
It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on 'Make it or Break It' probably didn't help much. To set the record straight, I certainly do not have an eating disorder. I think as anyone can gather, I love food, and it is not just a front to cover up the fact that I don't eat any.
Quote examples
Alber Elbaz
Israeli Designer
We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.
Quote examples
Chantal Akerman
Belgian Director
My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.
Quote examples
Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
Quote examples
Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.
Quote examples
Kate Moss
English Model
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
Quote examples
Evan Rachel Wood
American Actress
All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.
Quote examples
Fiona Apple
American Musician
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
Quote examples
Carmen Kass
Estonian Model
I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.
Quote examples
Cameron Russell
American Model
I've never personally been anorexic.
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