Môr'/bid, a.

a. [Lat. morbidus, from morbus, disease; Fr. morbide, It. & Sp. morbido.] Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; as, a morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant; a morbid sensibility.

Synonyms—Diseased; sickly; sick.—MORBID, DISEASED. Morbid is sometimes used interchangeably with diseased, but is commonly applied, in a somewhat technical sense, to cases of a prolonged nature; as, a morbid condition of the nervous system, a morbid sensibility, &c.

We are all diseased, And with our surfeiting and wanton hours Have brought ourselves into a burning fever. Shak.

Of morbid hue his features, sunk and sad; His hollow eye shook forth a sickly light. Thomson.

Whilst the distempers of a relaxed fiber prognosticate and prepare all the morbid force of convulsion in the body of the state, the steadiness of the physician is overpowered by the very aspect of the disease. Burke.