morbid.
Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
Meaning & usage
Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
morbid boy
morbid child
Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
morbid poem
morbid song
Grisly or gruesome.
morbid video
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mer-der.? Latin morbus Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin morbidusder. English 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”).
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