morbid
adjectiveattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈmɔː.bɪd//
- United States//ˈmɔɹ.bɪd//
Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
adjective
- 1
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!”
- 2
Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
morbid boy
morbid child
morbid mind
morbid obsession
- 3
Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
morbid poem
morbid song
- 4
Grisly or gruesome.
morbid video
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”).
Forms
- comparative
- more morbid
- superlative
- most morbid
morbid · Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
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