morbid
21morbid — adjective 1 having a strong and unhealthy interest in unpleasant subjects, especially death: He wanted to know all the morbid details about the accident. | a morbid fascination with instruments of torture 2 technical connected with or caused by a …
22morbid — morbidly, adv. morbidness, n. /mawr bid/, adj. 1. suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death. 2. affected by, caused by, causing, or characteristic of disease. 3.… …
23morbid — 1. anfällig, angegriffen, angekränkelt, angeschlagen, kränkelnd, krankheitsanfällig, kränklich, nicht widerstandsfähig, schwach, schwächlich, von Krankheit gekennzeichnet; (Med.): labil. 2. brüchig, im Verfall begriffen, krank, marode, morsch,… …
24morbid — adjective 1) a morbid fascination with contemporary warfare Syn: ghoulish, macabre, unhealthy, gruesome, unwholesome; abnormal, aberrant, disturbing, worrisome; informal sick, weird Ant: wholesome 2) I f …
25morbid — 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.… …
26morbid — krank; im Verfall begriffen * * * mor|bid 〈Adj.; er, am es|ten〉 1. krankhaft, angekränkelt, kränklich 2. morsch, brüchig ● die Altstadt hat einen morbiden Charme [<lat. morbidus „krank, ungesund“] * * * mor|bid <Adj.; nicht adv.> [frz.… …
27morbid — See morbid, sordid …
28morbid — adj. Morbid is used with these nouns: ↑curiosity, ↑fascination …
29morbid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unhealthy, diseased; gloomy, unwholesome. See disease. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Diseased] Syn. sickly, unhealthy, ailing; see sick . 2. [Pathological] Syn. abnormal, unsound, gruesome, gloomy,… …
30morbid — mor•bid [[t]ˈmɔr bɪd[/t]] adj. 1) suggesting an unhealthy mental attitude; unwholesomely gloomy 2) gruesome; grisly 3) affected by, caused by, causing, or characteristic of disease 4) pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy[/ex] • Etymology …
