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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
morbid
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
morbid curiosity (=a feeling of wanting to know about death or other bad things that happen)
▪ the morbid curiosity of the onlookers at the trial
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
curiosity
▪ Ken particularly used to enjoy the murder trials - not for any morbid curiosity, but for the drama unfolding.
▪ Cairns and co focus on the oddities of human nature with a certain morbid curiosity.
fascination
▪ Is it morbid fascination that holds your attention?
fear
▪ Few people would dare to refuse them out of a morbid fear of them and the curse a refusal may incur.
▪ Miss Russell had a morbid fear of sunlight fading carpets and furnishings, so the curtains were half drawn as usual.
▪ We were to fly across, which suited me, as I had a morbid fear of being torpedoed at sea.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a morbid gene
▪ Judging from the book's sales, people have a morbid fascination with murder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A father's self-confidence and certainty were transformed into disorientation, self-doubt and a morbid contemplation of death.
▪ But the film has a morbid elegance and an exotic lust for the jugular.
▪ He walked quickly, his head full of morbid thoughts.
▪ I didn't mind; it kept my thoughts off morbid fancies about Granny in her wooden box.
▪ Le Fanu was not alone in experiencing a morbid convergence between his life and his imaginings.
▪ Some people react so strongly against the morbid view of doubt that they treat doubt casually, even celebrate it.
▪ That had always struck me as pretty morbid, but this was the season of goodwill to all men.
▪ You're really morbid, you are.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morbid

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, a morbid condition; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. ``Her sick and morbid heart.''
    --Hawthorne.

  2. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.

  3. Indicating an unhealthy mental attitude or disposition; especially, abnormally gloomy, to an extent not justified by the situation; preoccupied with death, disease, or fear of death; as, a morbid interest in details of a disaster.

  4. Gruesome; as, a morbid topic.

    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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
morbid

1650s, "of the nature of a disease, indicative of a disease," from Latin morbidus "diseased," from morbus "sickness, disease, ailment, illness," from root of mori "to die," which is possibly from PIE root *mer- "to rub, pound, wear away" (cognates: Sanskrit mrnati "crushes, bruises;" Greek marainein "to consume, exhaust, put out, quench," marasmus "consumption"). Transferred use, of mental states, is from 1777. Related: Morbidly; morbidness.

Wiktionary
morbid

a. 1 (context originally English) Of, or relating to disease. 2 Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. 3 Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish 4 grisly or gruesome.

WordNet
morbid
  1. adj. suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"

  2. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details" [syn: ghoulish]

  3. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: diseased, pathologic, pathological]

Wikipedia
Morbid (Necro song)

"Morbid" is a song by American rapper Necro, released in 2001. It was the second and final single from his second album, Gory Days, released that year. Its content involves the perspective of a homicidal man who is prepared to trace any potential person who engages in a feud with him, so much as they are advised to change their name, sex and body frame, and travel by plane to a remote location in order to uncertainly ensure their safety.

Morbid (band)

Morbid was a Swedish death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, that formed in 1986.

Usage examples of "morbid".

The depths of my evil passion were again sounded and aroused, and I resolved yet to humble the pride and conquer the coldness which galled to the very quick the morbid acuteness of my self-love.

The morbid listening of his mother in the night brought out the fact that he made frequent sallies abroad under cover of darkness, and most of the more academic alienists unite at present in charging him with the revolting cases of vampirism which the press so sensationally reported about this time, but which have not yet been definitely traced to any known perpetrator.

It was a funny, rather smelly little place, and she hurried as much as she could, the more so that the foreigner who served her insisted on telling her some of the strange, peculiar details of this Avenger murder which had taken place forty-eight hours before, and in which Bunting took such a morbid interest.

Yet, although quite practicable, it would be a most morbid and dejected existence, without vitality or even thought, but only paramentation, our chief companions paramental entities of azoic origin more vicious than spiders or weasels.

There, in that moribund, ancient town, wrapped in its siesta, flagellated with heat, deserted, ignored, baking in a noon-day silence, these two strange men, the one a poet by nature, the other by training, both out of tune with their world, dreamers, introspective, morbid, lost and unfamiliar at that end-of-the-century time, searching for a sign, groping and baffled amidst the perplexing obscurity of the Delusion, sat over empty wine glasses, silent with the pervading silence that surrounded them, hearing only the cooing of doves and the drone of bees, the quiet so profound, that at length they could plainly distinguish at intervals the puffing and coughing of a locomotive switching cars in the station yard of Bonneville.

The Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy gave him a big grin and held up a jar.

From world-centric pluralism to divine egoism and biocentric sensory immersionat one with sentimental nature in my own self-reverberating feelingsthis was the other endgame of flatland holism, a morbid embrace driven by a Thanatos that, in the way of all deception, whispered always of the wonders of ever-shallower engagements.

We mention this case only because it is one among a very large number who have consulted us supposing that they were suffering from enlargement of the testicles, cancer, or some other morbid growth within the scrotum, when a slight examination has shown the affection to be hydrocele, a disease which is speedily cured by tapping, with a little after treatment.

These usages are so much a matter of capricious priestly ritual, ancestral tradition, unreasoning instinct, blind or morbid superstition, that any consistent doctrinal construction is not fairly to be put upon them.

His symptoms themselves developed symptoms, troughs and nodes he charted with morbid attention in the dumpster, in his suspenders and horrid tweed cap, clutching a shopping bag with his wig and coat and comely habilements he could neither wear nor pawn.

Even if the system be not enfeebled by excessive losses of blood, debility may result from a continued irritation of the uterine organs, and cause the morbid discharge.

I was told that this would turn black after a time, in virtue of a power which it possessed of drawing out original sin, or certain portions of it, together with the evil and morbid tendencies which had been engrafted on the corrupt nature.

My death wish, if you will, was merely another symptom of the mental erraticism that had so depressed me, a kind of morbid playfulness.

Moreover, so far as esthetic theory was involved, if the psychic emanations of human creatures be grotesque distortions, what coherent representation could express or portray so gibbous and infamous a nebulosity as the specter of a malign, chaotic perversion, itself a morbid blasphemy against nature?

It must modify the vitality of the whole system, when other causes may determine in the system thus impaired, the peculiar morbid action of which tubercular matter is the product.