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. [PJC]
4. Gruesome; as, a morbid topic. [PJC]
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.
"I laughed when I read the script," he said, "but I also thought, `This can be very morbid.'
In third was another morbid exercise, "Flatliners."
But the much-anticipated morbid jazzfest is a letdown, and few of the novel's large assortment of suspects and potential victims are very credible or engaging.
"There's no reason a funeral wreath has to be morbid and unimaginative," Mr. Settanni explains.
And yet the effect made the play not morbid but bracing. Private Lives, though in modern dress, was presented by Prowse as the brittle retreat into escapism that it indeed is.
Greens will be shocked by its morbid relish for urban decay and global despair.
She overlooked the fact that the man she chose to marry was a morbid hypochondriac.
A Missouri bill that becomes law on Aug. 28, in fact, prohibits the rental to minors of tapes that have either a tendency to appeal to morbid interests or depict violence in a patently offensive way as judged by local community standards.
And in what some would call the morbid side of takeover speculation, toy giant Hasbro Inc.'s stock shot up on word that chairman Stephen Hassenfeld was hospitalized in intensive care with pneumonia.
"There is stuff out there which is apparently accepted by the community which is far more morbid and shocking," U.S. District Judge David Kenyon said Wednesday in acquitting a video salesman of racketeering charges.
Police are increasingly turning to cash rewards and morbid crime re-enactments on television to lure John Q. Public to the phone.
"The Stepfather" isn't a slasher picture and it isn't morbid.
Bennett said jurors did not consider the film art and were divided over whether it appealed to purient interests, defined as a "shameful or morbid interest in sex." But they agreed the movie was not patently offensive.