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Sadistic vs Morbid - What's the difference?

sadistic | morbid |

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)
  • 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/]
  • 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.
  • Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain of others.
  • 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