Definition: (1) Extremely bad state of health resulting from malnutrition, starvation; (2) sick or depraved way of thinking, mental malnourishment.
[@more@]Usage: The adjective is "cachectic" which leaves the door open for an adverb, "cachectically," though it has never been recorded according to the Oxford English Dictionary (until now). The word is also sometimes spelled without the [h], as "cacexy."
Suggested Usage: Should you ever need to frighten someone (with a large vocabulary) who has lost too much weight, you might consider something like, "Rachel, that diet is reducing you to cachexy; here, have a piece of this Chocolate Decadence to at least clear my conscience." This word has long since risen above the purely physical, however, "The cachexy of the political system leaves me none too sanguine about the future of the economy."
Etymology: From Greek kakos "bad" + hexis "state." "Kakos" comes from the Proto-Indo-European word for "defecate," kaka, still used in that sense throughout Europe. "Poppycock" comes from Dutch pappekak," based on Latin pappa "food" + the Middle Dutch variant of this root, "kacken." Cacophony "discordant sound" comes from the same root kakos "bad" + phonos "sound"
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