anemic

Etymology

From anemia + -ic.

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from anemia.
2. (by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.
   [H]e was one of those weak creatures full of a shifty cunning - who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves, void of pride, timorous, anæmic, hateful souls. 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 219
   My ordinarily even disposition was shattered, I thought, beyond repair — a condition that was not improved by my utter abhorrence of a diet of infant's food and anemic vegetables. 1938, Henry Goddard Leach, Forum and Century, volume 100, page 156

noun

1. An individual who has anemia.