From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishanorexican‧o‧rex‧ic /ˌænəˈreksɪk◂/ adjective MIsuffering from or relating to anorexia► see thesaurus at thin —anorexic noun [countable]
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anorexic• And I was getting thin, and she thought I was anorexic.• Both the anorexic and the mystic are impervious to this simple chain of events.• And, in similar circumstances, the anorexic can always starve herself again.• The yellow lights on their anorexic columns look mad, like cyclopean triffids, very thin, very tall.• In her paradoxical way, the anorexic is facing up to the truth implicit in her own convictions.• Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual's reactions to an impinging world.• People do not become anorexic simply through slimming too much, nor alcoholic through drinking too much. 