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mor⋅bid

[mawr-bid]
–adjective
1. suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
2. affected by, caused by, causing, or characteristic of disease.
3. pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
4. gruesome; grisly.

Origin:
1650–60; < L morbidus sickly, equiv. to morb(us) sickness + -idus -id 4


mor⋅bid⋅ly, adverb
mor⋅bid⋅ness, noun


2. unwholesome, diseased, unhealthy, sick, sickly; tainted, corrupted, vitiated.


1. cheerful. 2. healthy.
mor·bid   (môr'bĭd)   
adj.  
    1. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased.
    2. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: "He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses" (Edgar Allan Poe).
  1. Characterized by preoccupation with unwholesome thoughts or feelings: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest.
  2. Gruesome; grisly.

[Latin morbidus, diseased, from morbus, disease; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]
mor'bid·ly adv., mor'bid·ness n.

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, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." --Hawthorne.

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

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.
Language Translation for : morbid
Spanish: morboso, enfermizo,
German: morbide,
Japanese: 病的な

morbid 
1656, "of the nature of a disease, indicative of a disease," from L. morbidus "diseased," from morbus "sickness, disease," from root of mori "to die," or from PIE base *mor- "to rub, pound, wear away" (cf. Gk. marainein "to consume, exhaust," marasmus "consumption"). Transf. use, of mental states, is from 1777.

Main Entry: mor·bid
Pronunciation: 'mor-b&d
Function: adjective
1 a : of, relating to, or characteristic of disease b : affected with or induced by disease morbid condition> <morbid alteration of tissues> c : productive of disease <morbid substances>
2 : abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings

morbid mor·bid (môr'bĭd)
adj.

  1. Relating to or caused by disease; pathological or diseased.
  2. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome.

mor'bid·ness n.

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