moribund

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (3)  · 

View all »
Definitions (8)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. adjective Approaching death; about to die.
  2. adjective On the verge of becoming obsolete: moribund customs; a moribund way of life.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples

  • For the Cause of Liberty here, we consider, was the culminating moment; Elsass, Lorraine and the Three Bishoprics lying in their quasi-moribund condition; Austrian claims of Compensation ceasing to be visions of the heated brain, and gaining some footing on the Earth as facts. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Almoner Fitz-James (Uncle of our Conte di Spinelli) insisting that a certain Cardinal, who had got the Sacraments in hand, should insist; and endless ministerial intrigue being busy, -- moribund Louis had, when it came to the Sacramental point, been obliged to dismiss his Chateauroux. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • No reader who has made acquaintance with Polish History can well doubt but Poland was now dead or moribund, and had well deserved to die. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • I will confess that I stand in need of such a remedy for the moribund quandary I find myself in. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • They are growing moribund, just as the railroads did. —  The Past Through Tomorrow
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Moribund has been looked up 577 times, favorited 11 times, listed 145 times, and commented on 3 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin moribundus, from morī, to die; see mer- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French mori-bond = Spanish Portuguese moribundo = Italian moribondo, from Latin moribundus, dying, from mori, die: see mort, mortal.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈmɑrɪbənd/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recent Lookups

russian · dim-lighted · appellant · beatdown · accomplishment

Recent Favorites

airship · cloud-shadows · ombrophobous · turncoat · metaplasm

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious