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- pronunciation:
- mor
bihd
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
in an unhealthy, gloomy mental state; preoccupied with sickness, abnormality, or death.
He'd become morbid since his friend's death, speaking little and spending more and more time at the cemetery.- synonyms:
- grim
- antonyms:
- wholesome
- similar words:
- atrabilious, clammy, depressed, gloomy, lugubrious, macabre, melancholic, morose, somber
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| definition 2: |
causing repugnance and horror; gruesome.
a morbid sight- synonyms:
- grisly, gruesome
- similar words:
- disgusting, grim, hideous, horrible, horrid, macabre, repugnant, repulsive, sickening
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| definition 3: |
pertaining to, affected by, causing, or characteristic of sickness.
morbid pallor- synonyms:
- diseased, sickly, unhealthy
- similar words:
- degenerative, pathological, unsound, unwholesome, weakly
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| related words: |
malignant |
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| derivations: |
morbidly (adv.), morbidness (n.) |
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