Thesaurus: morbid

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1. a. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
2. a. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.
3. adj. suggesting an unhealthy mental state
4. adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay
5. adj. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
6. 1. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne. 2. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy. Syn. -- Diseased; sickly; sick. -- Morbid, Diseased. Morbid is sometimes used interchangeably with diseased, but is commonly applied, in a somewhat technical sense, to cases of a prolonged nature; as, a morbid condition of the nervous system; a morbid sensibility, etc.
7. j:100 s. suggesting an unhealthy mental state