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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOR'BID, a. [L. morbidus, form morbus, a disease, from the root of morior, to die.] Diseased; sickly; not sound and healthful; as morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant; a morbid sensibility.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"
2: suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details" [syn: ghoulish, morbid]
3: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin morbidus diseased, from morbus disease Date: 1656 1. a. of, relating to, or characteristic of disease <morbid anatomy> b. affected with or induced by disease <a morbid condition> c. productive of disease <morbid substances> 2. abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings 3. grisly, gruesome <morbid details> <morbid curiosity> • morbidly adverb • morbidness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 a (of the mind, ideas, etc.) unwholesome, sickly. b given to morbid feelings. 2 colloq. melancholy. 3 Med. of the nature of or indicative of disease. Phrases and idioms: morbid anatomy the anatomy of diseased organs, tissues, etc. Derivatives: morbidity n. morbidly adv. morbidness n. Etymology: L morbidus f. morbus disease

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Morbid Mor"bid, a. [L. morbidus, fr. morbus disease; prob. akin to mori to die: cf. F. morbide, It. morbido. See Mortal.] 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. Usage: 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a person or their interest in something as morbid, you mean that they are very interested in unpleasant things, especially death, and you think this is strange. Some people have a morbid fascination with crime. ADJ [disapproval] • morbidly There's something morbidly fascinating about the thought. ADV: usu ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Diseased, sickly, unsound, sick, unhealthy, tainted, vitiated, corrupted.

Moby Thesaurus

agape, agog, all agog, appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, blue, burning with curiosity, cankered, consumed with curiosity, contaminated, curious, dark, dejected, depressed, despondent, dire, direful, diseased, disordered, downcast, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell, formidable, gangrened, gangrenous, ghastly, ghoulish, gloomy, glum, gossipy, grim, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, infected, inquiring, inquisitive, interested, itchy, lugubrious, macabre, melancholic, melancholy, monstrous, moody, morbidly curious, morose, mortified, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcurious, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, poisoned, prurient, psychotic, quizzical, redoubtable, sad, saturnine, schrecklich, scopophiliac, septic, shocking, sick, sickly, sphacelated, sullen, supercurious, tainted, terrible, terrific, tremendous, ulcerated, ulcerous, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome, voyeuristic