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Morose vs Morbid - What's the difference?

morose | morbid |

As adjectives the difference between morose and morbid

is that morose is sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour while morbid is of, or relating to disease.

morose

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sullen]], gloomy; showing a [[brood, brooding ill humour
  • Synonyms

    * melancholy * sulky * crabby * glum * grouchy * gruff * moody

    Anagrams

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    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

    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