Get to know Morbid better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like unwholesome or ghoulish.
Morbid meaning
- Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
- Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
- Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
Synonyms of Morbid
Using Morbid
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease. | Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. | Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
- Useful related words include: unwholesome, ghoulish, offensive, diseased.
- In the example corpus, morbid often appears in combinations such as: the morbid, of morbid, morbid curiosity.
Context around Morbid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Morbid
- In this selection, "morbid" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nauseatingly, bands, titular, light, station and curiosity stand out and add context to how "morbid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include do get morbid in episode and had a morbid message for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "morbid" sits close to words such as accordion, admires and aftermarket, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with morbid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
God there are morbid a lot of people in the world. (11 words)
The callbacks to her funeral were thoughtful and well thought out without becoming morbid. (14 words)
In a moment of nauseatingly morbid irony, the next five and a half paragraphs are redacted. (16 words)
A holiday horror anthology may not be for everyone, but if you’re looking for genre cinema that shines a morbid light on the likes of Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, and Mother’s Day, is the tale of tales for you. (45 words)
It’s kind of morbid, but when deciding whether to start taking Social Security benefits at age 62, you also need to think about when your spouse might die — and how much he or she makes in comparison with you. (40 words)
A narrow four storey building on Westminster Bridge Road, the morbid station contained the company's offices, a main terminal, and a third class waiting room for mourners to accompany their loved one to the cemetery for burial. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
A holiday horror anthology may not be for everyone, but if you’re looking for genre cinema that shines a morbid light on the likes of Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, and Mother’s Day, is the tale of tales for you.
A narrow four storey building on Westminster Bridge Road, the morbid station contained the company's offices, a main terminal, and a third class waiting room for mourners to accompany their loved one to the cemetery for burial.
Borjigin said this research is driven by more than morbid curiosity, and could help save people who are near death.
God there are morbid a lot of people in the world.
However, the film is very nearly stolen from her by the extraordinary Margaret O'Brien, who plays her morbid little sister Tootie.
If this morbid thought lingered, then Sam Smith singing “Unholy” bathed in a sea of red light with fires in the background and dressed as Lucifer in platform boots checked it.
In 2017, as Hurricane Harvey came barreling toward Texas, Patrick Rios, the mayor of a coastal community called Rockport, had a morbid message for residents who might consider ignoring an evacuation order.
In a moment of nauseatingly morbid irony, the next five and a half paragraphs are redacted.
It does this in a way that feels more life-affirming than it does morbid or depressing, even though it doesn't sugarcoat things or have an over-reliance on being sentimental/feel-good.
It’s kind of morbid, but when deciding whether to start taking Social Security benefits at age 62, you also need to think about when your spouse might die — and how much he or she makes in comparison with you.
It’s morbid, it’s crazy, and it feels a bit taboo, but that’s what makes it such a cool kill scene.
People had gathered at the theater to see metal bands Morbid Angel, Revocation and Skeletal Remains.
She said the pictures, including those of her 13-year-old daughter Gianna, were taken and shared "for no reason other than morbid gossip".
That figure edged out Netflix's The Addams Family's titular morbid daughter, which boasted 1.8 billion viewing minutes throughout the week leading up to Christmas.
The callbacks to her funeral were thoughtful and well thought out without becoming morbid.
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning succeeds in delivering a comedic take on a morbid concept.
The tone of the play shifts consistently, keeping the audience on their toes in efforts to maintain the plot and alleviate tension with morbid humor.
This makes it all the more intriguing when things do get morbid in Episode 4, ending in Keiichi killing Mion and Rena with a baseball bat.
You can start a family, own a home or business, go to school, form relationships, burn your home down, drown your character in a swimming pool, and many, many other intense, morbid things.
Death Clock may seem morbid, especially if your predicted death date is uncomfortably close, but it's meant to be a tool for positive change.
Common combinations with morbid
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the morbid 7×
- of morbid 7×
- morbid curiosity 5×
- with morbid 5×
- morbid obesity 5×
- and morbid 3×
- as morbid 3×
- than morbid 2×
- this morbid 2×
- had morbid 2×