adjective
- having lost physical fitness or strength due to lack of exercise or training
Usage: medical; fitness
Examples
- After months of bed rest, the patient became severely deconditioned.
- The deconditioned athlete struggled to complete the workout.
- Physical therapy helped rebuild her deconditioned muscles.
- Years of inactivity left him deconditioned and weak.
- The deconditioned heart muscle required gradual strengthening exercises.
- She felt deconditioned after the long illness kept her from exercising.