Morbid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Morbid \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, a morbid condition; a
        morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a


        plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." --Hawthorne.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid
        anatomy.
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     3. Indicating an unhealthy mental attitude or disposition;
        especially, abnormally gloomy, to an extent not justified
        by the situation; preoccupied with death, disease, or fear
        of death; as, a morbid interest in details of a disaster.
        [PJC]
  
     4. Gruesome; as, a morbid topic.
        [PJC]
  
     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  morbid
       adj 1: suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in
              death"; "morbid curiosity"
       2: suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
          [syn: {ghoulish}]
       3: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology;
          "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic
          tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: {diseased},
           {pathologic}, {pathological}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "morbid":
     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