morbid
adjUK /ˈmɔː.bɪd/ · US /ˈmɔɹ.bɪd/
Etymology From Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“sickness”), itself from the root of morī (“to die”) or directly from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).
1
Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
- “Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes!”1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 127:
2
Broadly Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
- morbid boy
- morbid child
3 more examples
- morbid mind
- morbid obsession
- morbid question
3
Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
- morbid poem
- morbid song
4
Grisly or gruesome.
- morbid video
- Synonyms
- pathological, sick, twisted, unhealthy, unwholesome, warped, black, ghoulish, grim, macabre, bloody, disgusting, gory, grisly, gruesome, sickening
- Derived terms
- comorbid, comorbidity, hypermorbidity, intermorbid, monomorbid, morbidity, morbidize, morbidly, morbidness, morbid obesity, morbid owlet, multimorbid, nonmorbid, polymorbid, postmorbid, premorbid, supermorbid, unmorbid
- Related terms
- morbidezza, morbilous