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Morbid vs Morbose - What's the difference?

morbid | morbose |

As adjectives the difference between morbid and morbose

is that morbid is (originally) of, or relating to disease while morbose is proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy.

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

    morbose

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy.
  • * Ray
    • Morbose tumours and excrescences of plants.
    (Webster 1913) ----