Morbid [adjective]

Definition of Morbid:

gloomy, nasty, sickly

Synonyms of Morbid:

● Pessimistic

● Melancholy

● Macabre

● Unnatural

● Ghoulish

● Ghastly

● Gruesome

● Grim

● Aberrant

● Abnormal

● Ailing

● Dark

● Deadly

● Depressed

● Despondent

● Diseased

● Dreadful

● Frightful

● Grisly

● Hideous

● Irascible

● Malignant

● Monstrous

● Moody

● Saturnine

● Sick

● Somber

● Sullen

● Unhealthy

● Unsound

● Unusual

● Unwholesome

● Horrid

● Brooding

● Infected


Opposite/Antonyms of Morbid:

● Sound

● Happy

● Pleased

● Healthy

● Pleasant

● Joyful

● Cheerful


Sentence/Example of Morbid:

Philip himself, too, was morbid in his excessive tenderness for this boy.

This was no morbid sentimentalist; no pining, heart-broken woman.

You may say that Robespierre was morbid and unbalanced, and you may say the same of Bunyan.

The official brains of the nation are in a morbid condition.

I shrunk with morbid nervousness from owning to any knowledge of Eugen.

Neither of them had natural tact, and Godwin's sensibility was morbid.

From a just view of his responsibilities he had gone on to a morbid one.

The idea, morbid as it might be, brought him solace this time.

"Surely that must be a morbid fancy," Greta said in a distressed tone.

To Charles, no doubt, this seemed a morbid notion to be discouraged.