Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: morbid
IPA transcription: [m'ɔɹbəd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological
    Meaning: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"
  • Synonyms: ghoulish, morbid
    Meaning: suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
  • Synonyms: morbid
    Meaning: suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"
Usage examples
  • If you like to be uncomfortable and morbid, be so.
  • She might be too morbid, but wasn't it possible to be too wholesome?
  • Under this ceaseless persecution, Laura's morbid self-communing was renewed.
  • It was a phase of incipient dissatisfaction with life, morbid, but inevitable.
  • I realized with a start that I was becoming morbid, and turned from the gate towards the house.
  • It is the mood of a man who examines with morbid, curious insistence the malady that is devouring his soul.
  • ('With a morbid expectation,' murmured Eugene to Lightwood, 'that somebody is always going to tell him the truth.')
  • What a comfort if, even if he had thought her too silly and morbid to be laughed at, he had indulged her and consented to alter those rooms.
  • Far from morbid naturally, she did her best to deny the thought, and so simple and unartificial was her type of mind that for weeks together she would wholly lose it.
  • For I was fast lapsing into one of the moods which my little mother used to call my "morbid streaks" and which she had vainly tried to cure ever since I was a tiny girl.