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Vacuous vs Anemic - What's the difference?

vacuous | anemic |

As adjectives the difference between vacuous and anemic

is that vacuous is lacking meaningful content while anemic is of or pertaining to anemia.

As a noun anemic is

an individual who has anemia.

vacuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking meaningful content.
  • Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant

    • Derived terms

    * vacuity (noun) * vacuously (adverb) * vacuousness (noun)

    anemic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * anaemic (UK) *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to anemia.
  • (by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.
  • * 1938 , Henry Goddard Leach, Forum and Century (volume 100, page 156)
    • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An individual who has anemia.

    • Anagrams

    * * * English terms with alpha privatives