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🦴 Extremely thin 💤 Lacking energy
marasmic

marasmic

1 9.9
Extremely thin and weak from long illness or lack of food
  • adjective
  • /məˈræzmɪk/
  • Specialized
: marasmático
  • The doctor was concerned by the child's marasmic appearance after months of inadequate nutrition.

Examples

  • After a long illness, his body became so marasmic that he needed special care to recover.

  • In the refugee camp, many people looked marasmic due to prolonged food shortages.

  • The marasmic child needed urgent medical attention.

  • After months of illness, he looked marasmic and frail.

  • The doctor was concerned by the child's marasmic appearance after months of inadequate nutrition.

  • In the refugee camp, many people looked marasmic due to prolonged food shortages.

  • After a long illness, his body became so marasmic that he needed special care to recover.

Synonyms

malnourished
vsmarasmic
19 5.6

A person or animal that does not have enough food and is weak

is about extreme wasting and very visible thinness rather than general ill health
anorexic
vsmarasmic
18 7.0

Very thin and eating very little because they fear gaining weight

is used for extreme thinness from severe malnutrition rather than an eating disorder
emaciated
vsmarasmic
11 7.8

Extremely thin from illness or lack of food with bones showing

is focused on extreme thinness specifically from severe malnutrition

Antonyms

healthy
800 1.0

In good body and mind condition without sickness or injury

robust
120 3.9

Strong and able to work well in difficult conditions

well-nourished
3 3.4

Having enough healthy food to grow and stay healthy

How Emaciated

skeletal
3 6.0
marasmic
  • Specialized
1 9.9
emaciated
11 7.8
gaunt
15 7.3
thin
310 1.0

Surface Forms

marasmic positive

Morphology

marasmic = marasmus (transparent) = marasmus + ic

Formed by the regular adjective suffix '-ic' from the medical noun 'marasmus', so the relation is straightforward.

Etymology

Marasmic comes from the Greek word marasmos, which means 'drying up' or 'wasting away', like a plant with no water. So it describes a person who is very thin and weak because of illness or severe lack of food.