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say it: MAWR-buhd
morbid is an adjective meaning "suggesting an unhealthy mental state". It is pronounced /ˈmɔɹbəd/ — MAWR-buhd. It carries 3 recorded senses.
caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
“diseased tonsils”
“a morbid growth”
“pathologic tissue”
“pathological bodily processes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for morbid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.