Dictionary Definition
moribund adj
1 not growing or changing; without force or
vitality [syn: stagnant]
2 on the point of death; breathing your last; "a
moribund patient"; "the expiring man was carried home by his two
friends"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From moribundusPronunciation
- /ˈmɔːrɪbʌnd/
Derived terms
Translations
almost obsolete
Noun
- A person who is near to dying.
Extensive Definition
Moribund may refer to:
- Something literally or figuratively near death
- Moribund language, a language likely to become extinct without intervention
- Moribund Records, a heavy metal record label
- Moribund, an album by Anasarca
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
apathetic, bad, benumbed, blase, bored, cachectic, dead, debilitated, decadent, declining, despaired of,
deteriorating,
done for, dopey, dormant, drained, droopy, drugged, dull, dying, ending, enervated, exanimate, exhausted, expiring, facing death,
fading, failing, feeble, frail, given up, going, healthless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, in articulo mortis,
in extremis, in poor health, inanimate, incapable of life,
inert, infirm, invalid, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, low, lumpish, near death, nonviable, numb, obsolescent, on the wane,
pale, peaked, peaky, phlegmatic, pooped, reduced, reduced in health,
run-down, sated, sickly, sinking, sleepy, slipping, slipping away,
slow, sluggish, somnolent, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, terminal, torpid, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vegetable, vegetative, wan, waning, weak, weakened, weakly, weary, with low resistance,
world-weary