Meaning of MORBID
| Pronunciation: | | 'morbid
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- [adj] caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"
- [adj] suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
- [adj] suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"
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| | Synonyms: | | diseased, ghoulish, offensive, pathologic, pathological, unhealthy, unwholesome |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mor"bid\, a. [L. morbidus, fr. morbus disease; prob.
akin to mori to die: cf. F. morbide, It. morbido. See
{Mortal}.]
1. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal
condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid
constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
``Her sick and morbid heart.'' --Hawthorne.
2. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid
anatomy.
Syn: Diseased; sickly; sick.
Usage: {Morbid}, {Diseased}. Morbid is sometimes used
interchangeably with diseased, but is commonly
applied, in a somewhat technical sense, to cases of a
prolonged nature; as, a morbid condition of the
nervous system; a morbid sensibility, etc.
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| | Related Terms: | | agape, agog, all agog, appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, blue, burning with curiosity, cankered, consumed with curiosity, contaminated, curious, dark, dejected, depressed, despondent, dire, direful, diseased, disordered, downcast, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell, formidable, gangrened, gangrenous, ghastly, ghoulish, gloomy, glum, gossipy, grim, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, infected, inquiring, inquisitive, interested, itchy, lugubrious, macabre, melancholic, melancholy, monstrous, moody, morbidly curious, morose, mortified, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcurious, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, poisoned, prurient, psychotic, quizzical, redoubtable, sad, saturnine, schrecklich, scopophiliac, septic, shocking, sick, sickly, sphacelated, sullen, supercurious, tainted, terrible, terrific, tremendous, ulcerated, ulcerous, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome, voyeuristic |
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