Sadistic vs Morbid - What's the difference?
sadistic | morbid |
Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain of others.
(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.
As adjectives the difference between sadistic and morbid
is that sadistic is delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others while morbid is of, or relating to disease.sadistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.