Word Meanings - MORBID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne. 2. Of or pertaining to disease

Additional info about word: MORBID

1. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; 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. Syn. -- Diseased; sickly; sick. -- 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MORBID)

• Peccant
• Morbid
• corrupt
• criminal
• offensive
• objectionable
• vicious
• erring
• guilty
• transgressing
• Sick
• Diseased
• ill
• disordered
• distempered
• indisposed
• weak
• riling
• feeble
• morbid
• nauseated
• disgusted
• impaired
• valetudinarian
• Sickly
• Weak
• diseased
• ailing
• pining
• droop
• ing
• unhealthy
• vitiated
• delicate
• tainted
• valetudinary
• Tabid
• Wasting
• consumptive
• phthisical
• declining
• lean
• shrivelled
• Vicious
• Corrupt
• faulty
• defective
• bad
• peccant
• debased
• profligate
• unruly
• impure
• depraved

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MORBID)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to MORBID)

• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• PINNIPED
  One of the Pinnipedia; a seal. One of the Pinnipedes.
• PINCPINC
  An African wren warbler. .
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• TABID
  Affected by tabes; tabetic. In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. -- Tab"id*ly, adv. -- Tab"id*ness, n.
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• ERRABLENESS
  Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
• ERRHINE
  A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.
• PINNATIFID
  Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
• PINGUIDINOUS
  Containing fat; fatty.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• PINENCHYMA
  Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• VENTRILOQUY
  See VENTRILOQUISM
• SAILBOAT
  A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
• LAMBERT PINE
  The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• UNVAIL
  See UNVEIL
• PAILLON
  A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.
• ABERRATE
  To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• CASCARILLA
  A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ; also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark , the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic,
• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• SUPINITY
  Supineness. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPING
  1. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2. That which is supped; broth. Holland.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• SACRILEGIOUS
  Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
• VERRUGAS
  An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.