Synonyms 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

   Synonyms:
   diseased, unsound, unhealthy, sickly

   Antonyms:
   wholesome, healthy, sound

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1. morbidadjective

   suggesting an unhealthy mental state

   "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"

   Synonyms:
   ghoulish, diseased, pathologic, pathological

   Antonyms:
   healthy, wholesome, inoffensive

2. ghoulish, morbidadjective

   suggesting the horror of death and decay

   "morbid details"

   Synonyms:
   ghoulish, diseased, pathologic, pathological

   Antonyms:
   wholesome, inoffensive, healthy

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"

   Synonyms:
   ghoulish, diseased, pathologic, pathological

   Antonyms:
   healthy, inoffensive, wholesome

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1. morbidadjective

   Synonyms:
   diseased, sickly, unsound, unhealthy, tainted, vitiated, corrupted, indicative of disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "morbid":

   pathological, disease

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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. Von Humboldt:

   It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armour-proof against painful emotions; nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

3. Cesar Calderon:

   He's not going to flee, we're here, we're available to deal with the problem. ... Let's end the speculation, let's end the morbid fascination.

4. Helen Strudwick:

   The coffins show the skill and care with which the Egyptians prepared for the afterlife, to us, for whom death is a taboo subject, this seems like a morbid preoccupation. In fact, it was an obsession with life and an urgent wish to ensure its perfected continuation.

5. Eric Dishman:

   I don’t mean to be morbid, but this may be the last time you see me.