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MORBID
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
Example:
pathological bodily processes
Synonyms:
diseased; morbid; pathologic; pathological
Classified under:
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Derivation:
morbidity (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suggesting the horror of death and decay
Example:
morbid details
Synonyms:
ghoulish; morbid
Classified under:
Similar:
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Suggesting an unhealthy mental state
Example:
morbid curiosity
Classified under:
Similar:
unwholesome (detrimental to physical or moral well-being)
Derivation:
morbidity (an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind)
morbidness (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)
Context examples:
I tried to break in on the man’s morbid thoughts by calling him away, but he smiled sadly at me and refused to obey.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Inherited overproduction of free radicals, high levels of lipid peroxidation, protein oxidation, DNA rearrangements, morbid conditions mimicking human degenerative diseases: cataract, emphysema, cardiomyopathy, carcinogenesis; short life-span and low fecundity.
(OXYS, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
Complement deficiencies may also be acquired acutely post-infection or chronically from co-morbid autoimmune disorders.
(Complement Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)
Removal, separation, detachment, extirpation, or eradication of a body part, pathway, or function by surgery, chemical destruction, morbid process, or noxious substance.
(Ablation Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
Many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the high views that I had set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
All the morbid reticence seems to have passed from her, and she has just reminded me, as if I needed any reminding, of that night, and that it was here, on this very seat, I found her asleep.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Something morbid and significant attached to that sunburn, was Martin's thought as he returned to a study of the face, narrow, with high cheek-bones and cavernous hollows, and graced with as delicate and fine an aquiline nose as Martin had ever seen.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
What he could not clear away, however, was the effect of those years of morbid and unnatural life spent in the hidden chambers of the old house; and it was only the devotion of his wife and of his son which kept the thin and flickering flame of his life alight.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was beginning to feel rather than see this, for much describing of other people's passions and feelings set her to studying and speculating about her own, a morbid amusement in which healthy young minds do not voluntarily indulge.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"You're morbid, George," said his friend. "This has been a strain to you and you don't know what you're saying. You'd better try and sit quiet till morning."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
