'Moribund' definitions:
Definition of 'moribund'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not growing or changing; without force or vitality [syn: stagnant, moribund]
adjective
Being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"
Definition of 'Moribund'
From: GCIDE
- Moribund \Mor"i*bund\, n. A dying person. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Moribund'
From: GCIDE
- Moribund \Mor"i*bund\, a. [L. moribundus, from moriri to die. See Mortal.] In a dying state; dying; at the point of death. [1913 Webster]
- The patient was comatose and moribund. --Copland. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'moribund'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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