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anosmic

anos·micUK /æˈnɒzmɪk/adjective, noun

anosmic is an adjective meaning “Having anosmia; lacking a sense of smell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-O-S-M-I-C and has 2 syllables (anos·mic), and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does anosmic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Having anosmia; lacking a sense of smell.

  2. 2

    Lacking olfactory organs; anosmatic.

noun

  1. 1

    A person with anosmia; a person lacking a sense of smell.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce anosmic?

  • UK /æˈnɒzmɪk/

Anosmic has 2 syllables, split anos·mic in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-anosmic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of anosmic

  • more anosmic comparative
  • most anosmic superlative
  • anosmics plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is anosmic?

Anosmic appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Anosmic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense having anosmia:

LanguageWords
Frenchanosmique
Portugueseanósmico

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does anosmic come from?

From anosmia + -ic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).