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MORBID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does morbid mean?
• MORBID (adjective)
The adjective MORBID has 3 senses:
1. suggesting an unhealthy mental state
2. suggesting the horror of death and decay
3. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
Familiarity information: MORBID used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suggesting an unhealthy mental state
Context example:
morbid curiosity
Similar:
unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)
Derivation:
morbidity (an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind)
morbidness (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suggesting the horror of death and decay
Synonyms:
ghoulish; morbid
Context example:
morbid details
Similar:
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
Synonyms:
diseased; morbid; pathologic; pathological
Context example:
pathological bodily processes
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Derivation:
morbidity (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)
Context examples
A drawing of fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve symptoms, reduce the inflammation or to otherwise lessen a morbid process.
(Derivation, NCI Thesaurus)
It is more common in older males and may present as a co-morbid condition to obesity.
(Central Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
A system of categories to which morbid entries are assigned according to established criteria.
(International Classification of Diseases, NCI Thesaurus)
I have preyed on my own morbid coward heart, and it has preyed on me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The next, 'The theory of the book is bad, full of morbid fancies, spiritualistic ideas, and unnatural characters.'
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She might as well have said to the fire, "don't burn!" but how could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a prey?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
An abnormal responsiveness or morbid excitability of an organ, its part, or entire organism or its part to stimuli.
(Irritability, NCI Thesaurus)
The pathologic, physiologic, or biochemical mechanism resulting in the development of a disease or morbid process.
(Pathogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)
C3 deficiency may also be acquired acutely post-infection or chronically from co-morbid autoimmune disorders.
(C3 Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)
A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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