morbid

Speech parts

1. morbid - Adjective

2. morbid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sick pathological diseased ghoulish black pathologic grim gruesome sickly grisly unhealthy macabre unwholesome goth down
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Antonyms

healthy cheerful wholesome prancer lighthearted at peace
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Phrases with the word

morbid person morbid depression morbid humor morbid obsession with food morbid dread of eating morbid dread of water

Anagrams

bromid

Examples

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. Evelyn Underhill

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. Thomas Jefferson

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy. Cyril Connolly

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it. Cassandra Clare

Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals. Lewis Mumford

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony. Czesław Miłosz

Close letter words and terms

morazone MORB Morbey morbid anatomy morbid depression morbid dread of eating