moribund
C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
LiteraryRegister
General adjective
At the point of death, or in terminal decline and lacking vitality.
Fresh investment revived what had been a moribund shipbuilding industry.
Medicine adjective
Being in a dying state, with imminent risk of death.
On arrival the casualty looked moribund, so the team moved straight to resuscitation.
Business adjective
In terminal decline and near the end of useful life.
The board finally euthanised a moribund division that had lost money for a decade.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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