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Disordered vs Morbid - What's the difference?

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Disordered is a related term of morbid.


As adjectives the difference between disordered and morbid

is that disordered is chaotic; without clear order; in a state of disorder while morbid is (originally) of, or relating to disease.

As a verb disordered

is (disorder).

disordered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disorder)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Chaotic; without clear order; in a state of disorder.
  • Deranged.
  • * 1919 , :
    • The frenzy which had unsettled the mind of the hermit was by him communicated to his hearers who, sinking into a trance, fell easy victims to the fearful visions of a disordered mind.

    Related terms

    * disorderly * ordered

    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