Morbid vs Moral - What's the difference?
morbid | moral |
(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.
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
* Sir M. Hale
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Capable of right and wrong action.
Probable but not proved.
Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
* Macaulay
Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
(obsolete) A morality play.
As an adjective morbid
is (originally) of, or relating to disease.As a noun moral is
moral.morbid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* morbidity * morbidly * morbidnessSynonyms
* (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, sickeningmoral
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
- the wiser and more moral part of mankind
Synonyms
* (conforming to a standard of right behaviour) ethical, incorruptible, noble, righteous, virtuous * (probable but not proved) virtualAntonyms
* immoral, amoral, non-moral, unmoralDerived terms
* moral compass * moral high ground * moral minimumNoun
(en noun)- The moral of the (The Boy Who Cried Wolf) is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
- We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.