anorectic

Other forms of anorectic

plural

anorectics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anorectic

What does anorectic mean?

anorectic means "suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anorectic?

anorectic has 4 syllables: a-no-rec-tic. The stress falls on "rec".

What is another word for anorectic?

Close synonyms include anorexic, anorexigenic, anorexic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anorectic a common word?

anorectic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.