Morbid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Morbid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Morbid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
morbid adj suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity" suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details" Synonym(s): ghoulish, morbid caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" Synonym(s): diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]Her sick and morbid heart.[b8] --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.