Synonyms of morbid

morbid

adjective

ˈmȯr-bəd 

as in somber

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

a pessimist who is given to morbid introspection and thoughts of death

Synonyms & Similar Words

• somber
• depressing
• bleak
• depressive
• dark
• lonely
• darkening
• desolate
• solemn
• murky
• cold
• lonesome
• gray
• grey
• sombre
• morose
• miserable
• funereal
• depressed
• sad
• gloomy
• lugubrious
• black
• wretched
• sepulchral
• melancholy
• elegiac
• blue
• cheerless
• chill
• dreary
• saturnine
• sullen
• dismal
• glum
• dire
• forlorn
• oppressive
• disconsolate
• drear
• cloudy
• comfortless
• elegiacal
• melancholic
• plutonian
• unhappy
• tenebrous
• mournful
• desperate
• grim
• godforsaken
• negative
• hopeless
• dreich
• dull
• mirthless
• distressful
• distressing
• tenebrific
• discouraging
• pessimistic
• woebegone
• upsetting
• sunless
• Cimmerian
• inconsolable
• dim
• discomfiting
• dismaying
• dispiriting
• sorrowful
• dejected
• menacing
• disheartening
• despondent
• low
• droopy
• woeful
• hangdog
• lamentable
• plaintive
• down
• dour
• drab
• colorless
• threatening
• lowering
• louring
• loury
• lowery

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cheerful
• friendly
• bright
• festive
• cheery
• comforting
• gay
• cordial
• joyous
• joyful
• sunshiny
• jolly
• merry
• mirthful
• gay
• buoyant
• blithe
• optimistic
• hopeful
• encouraging
• heartwarming
• cheering
• blithesome
• lighthearted
• jocund
• lightsome

Examples of morbid in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On those two missions — plus another raid on a pair of Germain aircraft plants near Marienburg on October 9 that Orloff hasn’t dramatized — the 100th Bomb Group earned its morbid nom de guerre, losing nearly half its airmen in just three disastrous days. —Chris Klimek, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024

But goths also looked back further to the doom and gloom of the Victorian period and its morbid Cult of Death; to the fevered musings of Byron, Shelley, and Keats; to Europe’s rich history of gothic and neogothic art and architecture. —Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024

Thus, Free Solo is thrilling for its footage and what its subject tries to accomplish, but a sense of existential ambivalence comes with that morbid thrill. —Eric Farwell and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2024

Using surveillance video, detectives painstakingly traced the morbid trip from the Metro-North station to the South Bronx and finally to the apartment building on Rogers Place, police sources said. —Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2024