🦴 Extremely thin 💤 Lacking energy

marasmic

9.9

Lacking energy or growth and staying weak and inactive, a group like a company cannot improve

adjective
/məˈræzmɪk/

: estancado

After years of poor leadership, the company became marasmic and failed to innovate.

Examples

The once lively festival now feels marasmic, attracting fewer visitors each year.
Critics described the government's response as marasmic and lacking any real initiative.
The project has become marasmic over the past year.
After the budget cuts, the organization felt marasmic and unproductive.
The once lively festival now feels marasmic, attracting fewer visitors each year.
After years of poor leadership, the company became marasmic and failed to innovate.
Critics described the government's response as marasmic and lacking any real initiative.

Synonyms

sluggish

vsmarasmic

15 4.4

Not active or growing, for example in business

is more deeply stagnant and feeble rather than merely slow in activity

moribund

vsmarasmic

7 9.1

Being almost dead and no longer active, with little sign of life

is stagnant and feeble rather than being near death or ending

Antonyms

dynamic

146 4.2

Full of energy, new ideas, and constant activity

energetic

88 1.6

Full of energy and active

thriving

55 3.8

Growing and very successful, like a busy café or arts scene

How Energetic

dynamic

146 4.2

active

232 1.0

marasmic

9.9

inactive

19 2.5

stagnant

43 4.8

Surface Forms

marasmic positive

Morphology

marasmic = marasmus (semi-transparent) = marasmus + ic

Formally derived from 'marasmus' + '-ic', but the sense has been metaphorically extended to mean 'lacking vitality' in non-medical contexts.

Etymology

Marasmic comes from the Greek word marasmos, meaning 'drying up' or 'wasting away'. So it is used for things that have lost energy or growth, for example a company or event that has become weak and shows no new life or ideas.