Word of the Day – Moribund

Moribund (adj)

mor-i-bund

(of a person) At the point of death: (of a thing) In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigour.

Taken from the Latin moribundus, from mori to die and first coined in the early eighteenth century.

Example sentences

“She’d been lying for several hours before discovery, and, although conscious on admission to casualty, she was clearly moribund.”

“A once desultory and commercially moribund neighborhood is revived.”