anorexics
Sayan-uh-REK-siks/ænəˈɹɛksɪks/
- 1Plural of anorexic.
The ward treats adolescent anorexics alongside patients with other eating disorders.
Several former anorexics spoke at the conference about their long road to recovery.
Note
The plural counts two quite different things: people with anorexia nervosa, and medicines that suppress appetite. The rest of the sentence settles which, since patients are treated while drugs are prescribed or tested. Before a noun the word is an adjective and takes no -s, so it is anorexic patients, never anorexics patients.
anorexics is a form of anorexic
anorexic, noun: A person who suffers from anorexia nervosa. Full entry
- Forms
- anorexicanorexics plural
- Spelling
- anorexic → anorexics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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