morbid

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective suggesting an unhealthy mental state
  2. adjective suggesting the horror of death and decay
  3. adjective caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology

Etymology

From Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“sickness”), itself from the root of morī (“to die”) or directly from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).

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