émacié
French, adjective
émacié is spelled É-M-A-C-I-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 89,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émacié is a French adjective meaning “emaciated (thin or haggard)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of émacier. With an accent, émacie is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est très amaigri”.
What does émacié mean in English?
adjective
- 1
emaciated (thin or haggard)
- 2
dry (of a sound)
verb
- 1
past participle of émacier
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est très amaigri.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of émacié
- émaciée feminine
- émaciés masculine plural
- émaciées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to émacié
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émacié in French?
émacié appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).