Moribund

Synonyms: at death's door, atrophying, breathing one's last, crumbling, decaying, declining, dying, expiring, fading/sinking fast, failing rapidly, in decline, in extremis, near death, near the end, not long for this world, obsolescent, on its last legs, on one's deathbed, on one's last legs, on the decline, on the way out, stagnant, stagnating, waning, with one foot in the grave

Antonyms: flourishing, recovering, thriving

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Moribund

(adj) (of a person) at the point of death; “on examination she was moribund and dehydrated”
(adj) (of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigour; “the moribund commercial property market”

Moribund (मारीबन्ड / मॉरबन्ड) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)

मरणासना, मरणासन्न, मृतप्राय, म्रियमाण, मरनेवाला, अन्त के करीब, मरता हुआ

Moribund Origin

early 18th century: from Latin moribundus, from mori ‘to die’.

Moribund in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment,Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah has blamed the moribund state of the textile industry on lack of cotton.
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) is no more the moribund institution it once was.
Bengali Cinema is Moribund and Smug in its Comfort Zone.
Worryingly, for the Indian Railways, returns from freight, its backbone, have been moribund.
Add to this, the police too are rooted in the same moribund mindset.

Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of moribund

Mori (girl) is aankhen bund ho gayi hai… About to die..

Moribund pronunciation