Morbid Definition

môrbĭd
adjective
Given to or characterized by unwholesome thoughts or feelings, especially of death or disease.
Read the account of the murder with a morbid interest.
American Heritage
Of, having, or caused by disease; unhealthy; diseased.
Webster's New World
Resulting from or as from a diseased state of mind; esp., having or showing an unwholesome tendency to dwell on gruesome or gloomy matters.
Webster's New World
Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome.
A morbid fear of heights.
American Heritage Medicine
Gruesome; grisly; horrible.
The morbid details of a story.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Morbid

  • From Latin morbidus (“diseased"), from morbus (“sickness"), itself from the root of morior (“die") or directly from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“to rub, pound, wear away").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin morbidus diseased from morbus disease mer- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Morbid Sentence Examples

  • He'd always had a morbid sense of humor, like hers.

  • It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid irritation.

  • His early studies were directed chiefly to morbid anatomy.

  • The adjective "synechological" is used in the same general sense; "synechology" is a theory of continuity or universal causation; "synechia" is a term in ophthalmology for a morbid union of parts.

  • Morbid anatomy now became a recognized branch of medical research, and the movement was started which has lasted till our own day.

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