morbid
Adjective Satellite
- suggesting an unhealthy mental state
- "morbid interest in death"
- "morbid curiosity"
- suggesting the horror of death and decay
- "morbid details"
- caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
- "a morbid growth"
Adj
- Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
- Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
- Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
- Grisly or gruesome.
Adjective
- Characterized by an unhealthy interest in disturbing or gruesome subjects.
Examples
- morbid boy
- morbid child
- morbid mind
- morbid obsession
- morbid poem
- morbid question
- morbid song
- morbid video
- Some players have a morbid fascination with counting their opponent’s remaining tiles.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
diseased, ghoulish, pathologic, pathological, black, bloody, disgusting, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick, sickening, twisted, unhealthy, unwholesome, warped
Scrabble Score: 11
morbid: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmorbid: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
morbid: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary