morbid

mor-bid · adjective

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Definitions

adjective

  1. 1.

    Characterized by an unhealthy interest in death or unpleasant things.

  2. 2.

    (medicine) Relating to or characteristic of disease.

  3. 3.

    Causing disease or resulting from disease.

Related words

Antonyms: cheerful, healthy, wholesome
See also: grim, macabre, morbidity
Synonyms: grim, macabre, unhealthy

Etymology

From Latin morbidus ("diseased, sick"), from morbus ("disease"). The psychological sense of "preoccupied with death" developed in the 18th century.