anemic

1. (by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.Examples: "Near-synonyms: enervated, underoxygenated"; "[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."; "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."broadly