词汇释义
morbid TEM8IELTS GRE
UK /ˈmɔː.bɪd/ US /ˈmɔːr.bɪd/
1. adj, having or expressing a strong interest in sad or unpleasant things, especially disease or death. 病态的，不正常的
2. adj, (medical 医学) connected with disease. 病的，与疾病有关的
外刊例句
1. My siblings and I were also lucky that her personality matched our family well — even her slightly morbid sense of humor.(New York Times)
2. Jackson wrote that Woodard’s age and many health problems — which include heart disease, diabetes and morbid obesity — leave him particularly vulnerable to the virus.(Seattle Times)
3. Pandemics and the many morbid symptoms of climate change will become more frequent, severe, and costly in the years ahead.(The Guardian)
4. This morbid game never ends, of course, because new contenders for the title emerge almost daily.(The Guardian)
5. Stock prices for firearm companies rose this week after a gunman killed dozens of people in Las Vegas, an apparent continuation of a morbid trend linked to mass shootings.(New York Times)
6. While the world watches the takedown of Hacking Team and sifts through 400GB of leaked data with morbid curiosity, though, executives at other security vendors are probably getting nervous.(Forbes)
7. Public companies live in morbid fear of being outflanked by competitors, failing to meet their quarterly targets and watching helplessly as their stocks are pummeled by impatient investors.(New York Times)
8. At the risk of being morbid, Japan is running up debts today that no one will be around to pay in another few decades. (Forbes)
9. Unfortunately, it also lacks the base satisfaction of a true crime podcast, the vicarious thrill and morbid compulsion to keep looking at tragedy, to pry further into somewhere we don’t belong.(The Verge)
10. The morbid sensibility of the Addams family serves as a metaphor for any kind of otherness that prevents bigots from seeing their neighbors as equals.(The Verge)
11.I don’t mean to be morbid or ungrateful, but at 69, statistically speaking, the vaccine will probably allow me to exist only through the first Kamala Harris administration.(Washington Post)
12. Mourning relatives, conspiracy theorists and morbid gawkers grab at him as though he’s in a zombie apocalypse of grief.(Washington Post)
词汇搭配
morbid curiosity, fascination, trend, sense
词汇来源
1650s, "of the nature of a disease, indicative of a disease," from Latin morbidus "diseased," from morbus "sickness, disease, ailment, illness," according to de Vaan perhaps connected to the root of mori "to die," as "looking like death" (from PIE root *mer- "to rub away, harm," also "to die" and forming words referring to death and to beings subject to death), or from a non-IE word. Meaning "diseased, sickly" is from 1731. Transferred use, of mental states, "unwholesome, excessive, unreasonable" is by 1834. Related: Morbidly; morbidness. Middle English had morbous "diseased" (early 15c.), from Latin morbosus.
近义词
unhealthy, gruesome, sick, ailing, hideous, horrible, horrid, malignant, aberrant, abnormal, frightful, grim, unnatural, unusual, gloomy, dismal, melancholy, sad, bleak
反义词
healthy, salubrious, wholesome, happy, joyful, pleasant, pleased, fantastic, enjoyable, contented
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