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Ailing vs Morbid - What's the difference?

ailing | morbid | Related terms |

Ailing is a related term of morbid.


As adjectives the difference between ailing and morbid

is that ailing is sickly; sick; ill; unwell while morbid is (originally) of, or relating to disease.

As a noun ailing

is an ailment.

As a verb ailing

is .

ailing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ailment.
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    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

    • Anagrams

    *

    morbid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (originally) Of, or relating to disease.
  • Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
  • Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish
  • Grisly or gruesome.

    • Derived terms

    * morbidity * morbidly * morbidness

    Related terms

    * morbidezza * morbilous

    Synonyms

    * (of or relating to disease) pathological * (unhealthy or unwholesome) sick, twisted, unhealthy, unwholesome, warped * (suggesting the horror of death) black, ghoulish, grim, macabre * bloody, disgusting, gory, grisly, gruesome, sickening