morbid
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Definition of morbid
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Synonyms & Antonyms for morbid
Synonyms
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
Antonyms
bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny
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The strength of the documentary, which offers little by way of commentary, is that the camera does not feel overly intrusive; there is no presenter providing a morbid narrative. — E.h., The Economist, "A new documentary shows how attitudes to death are changing in America," 14 Aug. 2019 In addition, as part of what investigators described as a morbid joke, was the torso of a large man whose head had been replaced by that of a very small woman, according to the lawsuit. — Mahita Gajanan, Time, "Dismembered Limbs, Head Sewn Onto the Wrong Body Allegedly Found in Raid on Arizona Body-Donation Company," 26 July 2019 Let’s hope [Richey] realizes that, with a record of such unsettling, morbid resonance as The Holy Bible, no further gestures are required. — Longreads, "Manic Street Preachers’ Album The Holy Bible," 25 June 2019 In fact, Howe’s poetry was neither pious, sentimental, nor morbid. — Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books, "Whitman, Melville, & Julia Ward Howe: A Tale of Three Bicentennials," 27 May 2019 Joyce Carol Oates is sometimes spoken of as a novelist of sensationalism, her Gothic and morbid tendencies emphasized. — The New York Review of Books, "Ruth Franklin," 4 Apr. 2019 Kokoschka uses the closing-time warning at British pubs as the title for a morbid pas de deux between Father Time and a naked figure suggestive of the artist himself. — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, "A Painter of Ethereal Roughness," 7 Dec. 2018 Image The cohort of friends and lovers in Makkai’s novel live in a constant state of morbid apprehension, first awaiting their test results and then, if the news is bad, awaiting their initial symptoms. — Michael Cunningham, New York Times, "Surviving AIDS, but at What Cost?," 25 June 2018 Photo: Michael Hitoshi/Getty Autophobia—Fear of Being Alone Autophobia is a morbid and persistent fear of loneliness or solitude. — Alexandra Gekas, Woman's Day, "10 Fascinating Phobias," 14 Sep. 2010These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'morbid.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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morbid
adjective