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morbid

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

[Latin morbidus, diseased, from morbus, disease; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]

morbid·ly adv.
morbid·ness n.

morbid [ˈmɔːbɪd]
adj
1. (Psychology) having an unusual interest in death or unpleasant events
2. gruesome
3. (Medicine / Pathology) relating to or characterized by disease; pathologic a morbid growth
[from Latin morbidus sickly, from morbus illness]
morbidly  adv
morbidness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.morbid - suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"
unwholesome - detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
2.morbid - suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
offensive - unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
3.morbid - caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"
unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"

morbid
adjective
1. gruesome, sick, dreadful, ghastly, hideous, unhealthy, grisly, macabre, horrid, ghoulish, unwholesome Some people have a morbid fascination with crime.
2. gloomy, brooding, pessimistic, melancholy, sombre, grim, glum, lugubrious, funereal, low-spirited He was in no mood for any morbid introspection.
gloomy happy, cheerful, bright, wholesome
3. diseased, sick, infected, deadly, ailing, unhealthy, malignant, sickly, pathological, unsound Uraemia is a morbid condition.
diseased healthy, salubrious
Translations
morbid [ˈmɔːbɪd] ADJ
1. (= perverse) → morboso, malsano
don't be so morbid!¡no seas morboso!
morbid curiositycuriosidad f malsana
2. (Med) → mórbido

morbid [ˈmɔːrbɪd] adj [person, obsession] → morbide

morbid
adj
idea, thought, jealousy, curiosity etckrankhaft; interest, attitudeunnatürlich, krankhaft; sense of humour, talk etcmakaber; (= gloomy) outlook, thoughtsdüster; persontrübsinnig; (= pessimistic)schwarzseherisch; poet, novel, music etcmorbid; that’s morbid!, that’s a morbid thought or idea!das ist ja makaber; don’t be so morbid!sieh doch nicht alles so schwarz!; he’s such a morbid little boyer hat einen Hang zum Makaberen
(Med) → morbid; growthkrankhaft

morbid [ˈmɔːbɪd] adjmorboso/a
morbid [ˈmɔːbɪd] adjmorboso/a

morbid
adj morbid [ˈmoː(r)bid]
sick (in the way one shows his/her excessive interest in death, disease, cruel acts etc) his morbid fascination with horror films; her morbid imagination. morbied مَرَضي، مَريض болен morbidní sygelig morbide νοσηρός morboso, enfermizo haiglaslik مريض morbide חוֹלָנִי रोग ग्रस्त nezdrav, morbidan beteges tidak wajar morboso 病的な 병에 걸린 liguistas, nesveikas patoloģisks, neveselīgs morbid morbide, ziekelijk sykelig, uhyggelig, makaber chory, niezdrowy болезненный, нездоровый chorobný, patologický, morbídny morbiden, bolesten morbidan morbid เป็นโรค sapık; hastalıklı 病態的 хворобливий مریضانہ، پژمردہ bệnh tật


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Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast.
Very likely the reading of Ossian had something to do with my morbid anxieties.
Every moment of the man's waking life was filled with morbid thought of hatred--he had become mentally as he was physically in outward appearance, the personification of the blighting emotion of Hate.
 
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