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morbid

UK/ˈmɔː.bɪd//ˈmɔɹ.bɪd/

morbid adjective: of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.

Adjective

morbid (comparative more morbid, superlative most morbid)

  1. (originally) Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
    • “Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes!”1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 127
    Synonyms:
    pathological
  2. (broadly) Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
    • morbid boy
    • morbid child
  3. Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
    • morbid poem
    • morbid song
    Synonyms:
    black, ghoulish, grim, macabre
  4. Grisly or gruesome.
    • morbid video

morbid meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

morbid in Tamil

நோயுற்ற, நோய்சார்ந்த, பிணி இயல்புடைய, நோயுற்ற நிலை, நோய்ப் பாதித்த, நோய் தாக்கிய

morbid in Urdu

اجیرن, مریض, مردہ دل, روگی

morbid in Bengali

অস্বাভাবিক, রুগ্ণ, মৃত্যু, রোগ সংক্রান্ত অশুভ চিন্তা

morbid in Malayalam

വികൃത, രോഗഗ്രസ്തമായ, അനാരോഗ്യകരമായ
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morbid in Kannada
ಕುತ್ತಹಿಡಿದ, ಮಯ್ಸರಿಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ಬೇನೆಯಂಟಿದ, ಬೇನೆಹತ್ತಿದ
morbid in Arabic
مَرْضِيّ marḍīyy

Examples of morbid in a sentence

  • The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  • It’s a dark or morbid humour, that makes light of a subject matter that is generally taboo.
  • A word that is both a "Marvel hero" and a "morbid bet" is DEADPOOL.

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Synonyms of morbid

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Forms of morbid

comparativemore morbid
superlativemost morbid

Origin of morbid

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”).

Words formed from morbid

Questions about morbid

What does morbid mean?
Morbid means of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
What is morbid in Tamil?
Morbid in Tamil is நோயுற்ற, நோய்சார்ந்த, பிணி இயல்புடைய. See Morbid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is morbid?
Morbid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce morbid?
Morbid is pronounced /ˈmɔː.bɪd/ (UK).

Words near morbid in the dictionary

  1. morazone
  2. Morazán
  3. MORB
  4. Morbey
  5. morbi
  6. morbid
  7. morbid obesity
  8. morbid owlet
  9. morbider
  10. morbidest
  11. morbidezza

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morbid (page history and authors); morbid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morbid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morbid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morbid (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morbid (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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