Antonyms for morbid
ˈmɔr bɪdmor·bid

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1. morbidadjective

   Of, or relating to disease.

   Synonyms:
   pathological

2. morbidadjective

   Unhealthy or unwholesome, especially psychologically: mentally ill

   Synonyms:
   unhealthy, unwholesome, sick, twisted, warped

3. morbidadjective

   Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish

   Synonyms:
   grim, black, macabre, ghoulish

4. morbidadjective

   Grisly or gruesome.

   Synonyms:
   gory, disgusting, grisly, sickening, bloody, gruesome

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1. morbid

   Antonyms:
   wholesome, healthy, sound

   Synonyms:
   diseased, unsound, unhealthy, sickly

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1. morbidadjective

   suggesting an unhealthy mental state

   "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"

   Antonyms:
   healthy, wholesome, inoffensive

   Synonyms:
   ghoulish, diseased, pathologic, pathological

2. ghoulish, morbidadjective

   suggesting the horror of death and decay

   "morbid details"

   Antonyms:
   wholesome, inoffensive, healthy

   Synonyms:
   ghoulish, diseased, pathologic, pathological

3. diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathologicaladjective

   caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology

   "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"

   Antonyms:
   healthy, inoffensive, wholesome

   Synonyms:
   ghoulish, diseased, pathologic, pathological

How to use morbid in a sentence?

1. Martin Luther King Jr.:

   The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

2. Philip Stone:

   Dark tourism suggests a morbid fascination with death, but it's more about living and connecting with our world, politics and heritage, in a secular society... the Internet and tourism can provide meaning.

3. Emily Odesser:

   It never got to the point where I made any attempts or serious plans but I remember it was kind of this morbid obsession, when I was walking to school and I would see a car drive by me I would be like ‘Oh if I just go in front of that I can end this’, [or] I would see a knife in the kitchen and be like ‘If I just use this I could end it.’.

4. Chris Noth:

   He was on a tight rope in terms of not being over-sentimental or morbid, he was really happy with how it came together and how the show looked and how it has reinvented itself.

5. Oscar Wilde:

   The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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