Morbid
['mɔːbɪd] or ['mɔrbɪd]
Definition
(adj.) suggesting an unhealthy mental state; 'morbid interest in death'; 'morbid curiosity' .
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Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.
Editor: Louise
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Diseased, sickly, unsound, unhealthy, tainted, vitiated, corrupted, indicative of disease.
Editor: Will
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Diseased, unsound, unhealthy, sickly
ANT:Wholesome, healthy, sound
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Definition
adj. diseased sickly: not healthful.—n. Morbid′ity the quality of being morbid: disease: the ratio of sickness in a community.—adv. Mor′bidly.—n. Morbidness sickliness.—adjs. Morbif′eral Morbif′erous; Morbif′ic causing disease.—n. Morbil′lī measles.—adjs. Morbil′liform like measles; Morbil′lous pertaining to measles; Morbose′ proceeding from disease: morbid: not healthy.—n. Mor′bus disease.
Editor: Margie
Examples
- So don't let me hear of these foolish morbid ideas. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Not as well as you, dear, he rejoined, wondering what had suddenly developed in her Janey's morbid interest in clothes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- What has happened to make me so morbid to-day? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The morbid scales had fallen from her eyes, and she saw her position and her work more truly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It's morbid to say this; it's unhealthy; it's all that a well-regulated mind like Miss Clack's most instinctively shudders at. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This produced a settled gloom, which in time developed a morbid insanity, and finally terminated in raving madness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- With regard to preserving morbid specimens he thought it would answer perfectly well. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Protestants are rarely superstitious; these morbid fancies will not beset _you? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The next, 'The theory of the book is bad, full of morbid fancies, spiritualistic ideas, and unnatural characters. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The life she leads is morbid, unnatural. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- If you like to be uncomfortable and morbid, be so. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Both these having violated nature, their natural likings and antipathies are reversed; they grow altogether morbid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- At every new attempt to look about him the same morbid sensibility to light was manifested, and excoriating tears ran down his cheeks. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Paul whether the morbid fancies, against which he warned me, wrought in his own brain. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Melinda