morbid
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Definition of morbid
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
““Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes!””
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adj
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Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
““Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes!””
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(broadly)Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
“morbid boy”
“morbid child”
“morbid mind”
“morbid obsession”
“morbid question”
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Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
“morbid poem”
“morbid song”
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Grisly or gruesome.
“morbid video”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mer-der.? Latin morbus Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin morbidusder. English morbid From Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“sickness”), itself from the root of morī (“to die”) or directly from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).
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