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Synonyms of anaemic in English:

anaemic


See UK English definition of anaemic

adjective

1‘his naturally anaemic face became even paler’

SYNONYMS
colourless, bloodless, pale, pallid, wan, ashen, white, white as a ghost, white as a sheet, grey, jaundiced, waxen, chalky, chalk white, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached
rare etiolated
ANTONYMS

ruddy

2‘‘attraction’ was an anaemic description of her feelings’

SYNONYMS
feeble, weak, insipid, pallid, pale, wishy-washy, vapid, bland, poor, puny, flat, inadequate
lame, tame, uninspired, unimaginative, lacklustre, spiritless, half-hearted, vigourless, lifeless, powerless, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, enervated, bloodless
informal pathetic
rare etiolated
ANTONYMS

punchy