morbid
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- unwholesome, ghoulish, gloomy, melancholy, sick, sombre, unhealthy
- gruesome, dreadful, ghastly, grisly, hideous, horrid, macabre

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Contrasted words: healthy, sound, well, wholesome, solid, stable, stolid, sturdy
Related Words: gloomy, melancholic, psychotic, dark, moody, saturnine, sullen

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

mor‧bid /ˈmɔːbəd, ˈmɔːbɪd $ ˈmɔːr-/ adjective
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: morbidus 'diseased', from morbus 'illness']

1. with a strong and unhealthy interest in unpleasant subjects, especially death
morbid fascination/curiosity
a morbid fascination with instruments of torture
The trip was made all the worse by Frankie’s morbid fear of flying.
His head was full of morbid thoughts.

2. medical relating to or caused by a disease:
a morbid gene
—morbidly adverb
—morbidity /mɔːˈbɪdəti, mɔːˈbɪdɪti $ mɔːr-/ noun [uncountable]

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