morbid
Drawn to death
Morbid describes an unhealthy preoccupation with death, disease, or the unpleasant: a morbid fascination with serial killers, morbid curiosity about the accident scene.
The word suggests dwelling on what most people avoid thinking about.
In medical contexts, morbid relates to disease or its symptoms: morbid anatomy studies diseased tissue.
Morbid obesity is severe enough to cause health problems.
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- grislyShockingly horrific
- ghastlyTerrifyingly horrible or pale
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
deathly · morgue · corpse · decay · mortality · funeral · coffin · grave
Distorted, bizarre figure
- gothicDark, mysterious aesthetic
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- creepyDisturbingly strange
spooky · haunting · chilling · spectral · ghostly · phantom · apparition · vampire
Persistent, intrusive preoccupation
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
- preoccupationAbsorbing mental focus
- fascinationIntense absorbed interest
- monomaniaFixation on single idea
compulsion · dwelling · rumination · brooding · intrusive thoughts · hypochondria · anxiety · neurosis
Study of disease processes
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- pathologicalRelating to disease processes
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- prognosisPredicted disease course
symptom · malignant · tumor · lesion · biopsy · histology · oncology · clinical
Intense anticipatory fear
- ominousSuggesting something bad approaches
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- uneaseMild persistent worry
menace · portent · grim · dark · bleak · dire · sinister · fatalistic
macabre
Disturbing, death-obsessed
cadaverous · deathly · morgue · corpse · decay · mortality · funeral · coffin · grave · cemetery
grotesque
Distorted, bizarre figure
creepy · spooky · haunting · chilling · spectral · ghostly · phantom · apparition · vampire · zombie
obsession
Persistent, intrusive preoccupation
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
- preoccupationAbsorbing mental focus
- fascinationIntense absorbed interest
monomania · compulsion · dwelling · rumination · brooding · intrusive thoughts · hypochondria · anxiety · neurosis · melancholia
pathology
Study of disease processes
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- pathologicalRelating to disease processes
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
prognosis · symptom · malignant · tumor · lesion · biopsy · histology · oncology · clinical · abnormality
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
- ominousSuggesting something bad approaches
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
unease · menace · portent · grim · dark · bleak · dire · sinister · fatalistic · doom
- horrorhorror, terror, fear, dread, haunted
- Gothic horrorghost story, haunted houses, Dracula, vampires, Frankenstein
- funnyfunny, comical, hilarious, humorous, amusing
- disgustdisgust, disgusting, disgusted, revulsion, repulsion
- Gothic castledungeons, towers, turrets, battlements, drawbridges
- death literaturemortality, mourning, elegy, requiem, dirge
morbidcheerful
Pleasantly bright in mood
optimistic · hopeful · bright · sunny · joyful
- morbid curiosityInterest in disturbing things
- morbid fascinationAttraction to grisly subjects
- morbid humorComedy about death, disease
- morbidly obeseFatness risking health
- morbid obesityDangerously excessive body fat
morbidity, morbidly, comorbidity, morbidness, comorbidities, morbidities