- 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. Source: opted
- 2. a. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy. Source: opted
- 3. adj. suggesting an unhealthy mental state Source: wordnet
- 4. adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 7. j:100 s. suggesting an unhealthy mental state Source: ecdict
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