morbide — meaning in English
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English meaning
- morbid adj Having an unhealthy interest in death, disease, or other disturbing subjects.
Senses
morbide is used for these senses in English:
- morbid (originally) Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease. [from 1650s]
- morbid (by extension) Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. [from 1770s]
- morbid Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
- morbid Grisly or gruesome.
morbid — full definition
- adj Having an unhealthy interest in death, disease, or other disturbing subjects.
- adj Relating to or caused by disease.
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