[responsivevoice]moribund[responsivevoice] [ mawr-uh-buhnd ]
The word of the day is ‘moribund’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Dying
2. At the point of death
3. Doomed
4. Near the end
1. Surely it was time to infuse new blood into the veins of the moribund art.
2. I saw for myself the return of life to a body that was moribund.
3. On examination, she was moribund and dehydrated.
4. Only the rescue party came out, one carrying a moribund cat.
5. “You can tell my country, sir, that I died willingly,” panted the moribund.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
at death’s door, at the end of the rope, declining, done for, doomed, expiring, fading, mortal, mortally ill, on one’s deathbed, one foot in the grave, passing, perishing, dying, near death, near the end, at death’s door, breathing one’s last, fading/sinking fast, not long for this world, waning, stagnating, crumbling, atrophying, obsolescent, etc
thriving, recovering, flourishing
Quotation:
When I went to get my master’s in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor’s Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.
Peter Coyote
Social Example:
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