Vocabulary
Anaemic
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
suffering from anaemia.
Urdu meaning
اینیمیا کا مریض
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Growth remains anaemic, with exports and foreign investment stagnant.
- With anaemic growth, cost-of-living crisis and limited job creation, poverty has not only increased but become more severe.
- Revenue increases in a year of anaemic growth and slowing inflation are very hard to fetch, but they seem to have found a way to do it nonetheless, a fact the chairman went to great pains to highlight.
- If we can be the first Muslim nuclear country and have one of the best air forces in the world, we can also take good care of our stunted children, anaemic mothers, those out of school and those struggling to come out of poverty.
- The sentiment is understandable given a disastrous combination of high inflation, anaemic increases in salaries, and eroding purchasing power.
Synonyms
colourless, bloodless, pale, pallid, wan, ashen, white, white as a ghost/sheet, grey
Curator example
“the doctor said you were a bit anaemic”
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