Morbid

Definition: Morbid

Morbid

Adjective

1. Suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity".

2. Suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details".

3. Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "morbid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Morbid \Mor"bid\, adjective. [Latin expression morbidus, from morbus disease; probably akin to mori to die: compare to the French expression morbide, Italian morbido. See Mortal.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Morbid

Disease

Unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.

Morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose.

Crosswords: Morbid

German (degenerate, morbid, morbidly), Romanian (diseased, morbid).

It is only out of sheer morbid curiosity that I am allowing this freak show to continue. (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

You know you shouldn't look, but there is a certain morbid fascination! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Where's the crabby scowl, the morbid gloom? (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

I guess it's just my morbid personality. (Rebel Without a Cause; writing credit: Nicholas Ray; Irving Shulman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Morbid Taste for Bones (reference)

• Alexandria Presents: Morbid Fascinations [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

• Morbid Appearances : The Anatomy of Pathology in the Early Nineteenth Century (reference)

• Morbid Curiosities (reference)

• The Morbid Kitchen (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Brother Cadfael - A Morbid Taste for Bones (reference)

• Brother Cadfael: A Morbid Taste for Bones (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Morbid Visions/Bestial Devasta [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Scream Forth Blasphemy: A Tribute To Morbid Angel [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Morbid Appearances of the Spinal System in Tetanus / Holbrooke. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Inviting the undertaker. Ignore the morbid fact that this double white line is a memorial to hundreds and thousands who took a chance. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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She felt a morbid desire to ascertain the point.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The principal concern is whether more severe anemia is related to morbid events. (references)

Morbid events include wound infection, delayed wound healing, bleeding, and impaired recovery. (references)

This would allow low-risk women to avoid costly and potentially morbid diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "morbid": morbid anatomy. Additional references.

Ending with "morbid": pre-morbid.

Albanian

patologjik (pathological), ngjethës (creepy, shivering, shocking, shuddering), i sëmurë (ailing, bad, case, compulsive, diseased, down, ill, invalid, noisome, pathological, patient, seedy, sick, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), i frikshëm (bloodcurdling, dreadful, eerie, eery, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, redoubtable, redoubted, terrific, tremendous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كئيب إلى شىء ما, ‏مولد مرضا, ‏مرضي (fulfilling, invalid, pathological, sick), ‏ناشئ عن مرض, ‏رهيب (bloodcurdling, bloody, chilly, dire, dreadful, fearful, fierce, grisly, gruesome, hairy, holy, horrible, horrific, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish, redoubtable, smashing, super, terrible, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхотен (awesome, devilish, direful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, tremendous, unearthly), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), грозен (eyesore, grotesque, hideous, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ugly, unlovely, unsightly), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), нездрав (feverish, insalubrious, noisome, sallow, unhealthy, unsound), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), болестен (peccant), болезнен (afflictive, diseased, painful, peccant, sick, sore, torturous, unsound, wicked), патологичен (pathological, teratoid). (various references)

Chinese 

疾病 (Ailment, Disease, morbidly). (various references)

Czech

morbidní (ghoulish, sick), patologický (compulsive), hřbitovní, chorobní. (various references)

Danish

vaevsundersoegelse (morbid anatomy and histopathology), sygelig soevnighed (excessive necessity for sleep, morbid sleepiness), sygdomssekvens (sequence of morbid conditions), sengesoegen (excessive necessity for sleep, morbid sleepiness), patologisk anatomi og histologi (morbid anatomy and histopathology), lidelse (morbid condition), enegænger (morbid recluse person), clinomani (excessive necessity for sleep, morbid sleepiness), anatomisk-patologisk laboratorium (morbid anatomy laboratory). (various references)

Dutch

solitair (alone, just, only, solely), pathologische anatomie (morbid anatomy and histopathology), pathologisch-anatomisch laboratorium (morbid anatomy laboratory), eenzelvig (morbid recluse person), clinomanie (excessive necessity for sleep, morbid sleepiness), clinomania (excessive necessity for sleep, morbid sleepiness), bedzucht (excessive necessity for sleep, morbid sleepiness), alleenstaand (isolated, living alone, secluded, single). (various references)

Farsi 

مریض (Patient, Sick), ناسالم (Insanitary, Unhealthy, Unsound), ناخوش (Ill, Sick, Unhealthy, Unsound, Unwell), ویژه ناخوشی , وحشت اور (Awesome, Gruesome, Terrible). (various references)

Finnish

sairas (diseased, ill, indisposed, patholigical, patient, sick, sick person, unwell), epäterve. (various references)

French

morbide, lugubre, horrifiant. (various references)

German

morbid (degenerate, morbidly), krankhaft (abnormal, chronic, diseased, ill-looking, morbidly, pathological, sickly, unhealthy). (various references)

Greek 

νοσώδησ (unhealthy), νοσηρόσ (sickly, unsound), παθολογικόσ (compulsive, pathologic, pathological). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"וכא (blue, dejected, depressed, down, down in the mouth, gloomy, hypochondriac, liverish), חול�" רוח (insane, mad, mental case, psychopath), חול� י (ailing, sick, sickly, unhealthy, weakly). (various references)

Hungarian

kóros (diseased, morbidity, pathological, peccant, pernicious). (various references)

Indonesian

murung (glum, lugubrious, melancholic, mopish, mopy, morose, querulous), penyakitan, abnormal (abnormal). (various references)

Italian

morboso (pathological, unhealthy), malsano (diseased, ill, sick, sickly, unhealthy, unwholesome), malato (bad, diseased, ill, sick, sick person, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), patologico (pathological, pathologically). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

不健全 (unhealthful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふけ�"ぜ�" (unhealthful). (various references)

Korean 

병 (Bottle, illness, sickness). (various references)

Manx

foudagh (damaged), doghanagh (diseased, disordered, ill, sick person, sickly). (various references)

Pig Latin

orbidmay

Portuguese

mórbido (diseased, unhealthy, unsound), patológico (pathological), doentio (crank, diseased, green, insalubrious, insanitary, reckling, sickly, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome, wan, weak, weakly, wishy-washy). (various references)

Romanian

morbid (diseased), patologic (pathologic, pathologically). (various references)

Russian 

отвратительный (abhorrent, abominable, crummy, cursed, damned, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, evolving, execrable, filthy, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, loathsome, nameless, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, poisonous, rank, repugnant, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), болезненный (achy, afflictive, ailing, cachectic, painful, peccant, pimping, sickly, squeamish, unhealthy, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly), психически нездоровый, патологический (pathologic, pathological). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

morbidan (sick), bolestan (bad, diseased, ill, sick). (various references)

Spanish

mórbido (delicate, diseased). (various references)

Swedish

sjuklig (ailing, diseased, distempered, infirm, invalid, pathological, sickly, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary, wan). (various references)

Thai

เป็นโรค (have), ผิ�"ปกติ (eccentric, irregular). (various references)

Turkish

marazi şeylere ilgi duyan, marazi, hastalıklı (Dickey, dicky, diseased, infirm, sickly, unwholesome, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly). (various references)

Ukrainian

хворобливо підозрілий, хворобливий (cachectic, crocky, diseased, frail, unhealthy, valetudinarian, weakly, wishy washy), патологічний (pathologic). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bệnh tật (actuary, invalid). (various references)

Welsh

afiach (dirty, sick, unhealthy, unwell, unwholesome). (various references)

morbidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "morbid": morbidities, morbidity, morbidly, morbidness, morbidnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Morbid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Marbod, Marwidk, Merid, merrid, midbody, mobi, mobidip, Morabit, Morbey, Morbi, morbide, morbido, morbids, morbif, morbis, morbit, morbod, morbus, Morby, mordbity, Morfit, Morfitt, morir, Mrbi, mrobid, Mugrabi, murrid, Norbit, norbu, Noribic, sorbid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bromid.

-2 letters: bird, brim, brio, dorm, drib, modi.

-3 letters: bid, bio, bod, bro, dib, dim, dom, dor, mib, mid, mir, mob, mod, mor, obi, orb, rib, rid, rim, rob, rod, rom.

-4 letters: bi, bo, do, id, mi, mo, od, om, or.

+1 letter: ambroid, bromide, bromids.

+2 letters: amberoid, ambroids, biformed, bromides, bromidic, bromized, embodier, embryoid, morbidly, moribund, rhomboid.

+3 letters: amberoids, blindworm, bromeliad, embodiers, embroider, embroiled, embryoids, hybridoma, imbowered, imbrowned, morbidity, rhomboids, scombroid.

+4 letters: blindworms, bombardier, bombarding, bridegroom, bromeliads, brominated, embroiders, embroidery, firebombed, formidable, formidably, hybridomas, middlebrow, mindblower, mislabored, monohybrid, morbidness, motorbiked, recombined, reembodied, reembodies, rhomboidal, rhomboidei, scombroids.

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