Morbid vs Sickly - What's the difference?
morbid | sickly | Synonyms |
(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.
Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale.
* Dryden
Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease.
* Shakespeare
Tending to produce disease.
Tending to produce nausea; sickening.
To make sickly.
* Shakespeare
* 1840 , S. M. Heaton, George Heaton, Thoughts on the Litany, by a naval officer's orphan daughter (page 58)
* 1871 , Gail Hamilton, Country living and country thinking (page 109)
In a sick manner.
* 2010 , Rowan Somerville, The End of Sleep (page 66)
Morbid is a synonym of sickly.
As adjectives the difference between morbid and sickly
is that morbid is (originally) of, or relating to disease while sickly is frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.As a verb sickly is
to make sickly.As an adverb sickly is
in a sick manner.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, sickeningsickly
English
Adjective
(er)- a sickly child
- a sickly plant
- The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
- a sickly smile
- This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
- a sickly''' autumn; a '''sickly climate
- (Cowper)
- a sickly''' smell; '''sickly sentimentality
Verb
- Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
- He evidently thinks the sweet little innocents never heard or thought of such a thing before, and would go on burying their curly heads in books, and sicklying their rosy faces with "the pale cast of thought" till the end of time
Adverb
(en adverb)- The creaseless horizontal face of the giant smiled sickly , leering.