morbid

Meaning

1. Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
2. (broadly) Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
3. Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
4. Grisly or gruesome.

Synonyms

pathologic

unhealthy

pathological

diseased

sick

🤢

macabre

ghoulish

unwholesome

sickly

unsound

unhealthful

dreadful

terrible

hideous

ailing

horrendous

horrible

awful

grotesque

gruesome

horrid

horrific

ill

🤢

loathsome

lurid

malignant

morose

odious

outrageous

peccant

repulsive

septic

shocking

terrific

torpid

unspeakable

valetudinarian

valetudinary

dredful

abominable

Goreyesque

beastly

compulsive

creepy

dark

detestable

dire

direful

disordered

dread

Translations

morbide

mórbido

morbide

krankhaft

morbid

ziekelijk

morboso

hastalıklı

mórbido

macaber

mòrbid

morboso

ongezond

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɔː.bɪd/

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”).