different between distempered vs morbid

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?t?mp?d/

Verb

distempered

1. simple past tense and past participle of distemper

Adjective

distempered (comparative more distempered, superlative most distempered)

1. (archaic) Affected with or suffering from distemper.

   Synonym: diseased

   • 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 153,

     I, sick withal, the help of bath desired, / And thither hied, a sad distemper’d guest, / But found no cure: the bath for my help lies / Where Cupid got new fire—my mistress’ eyes.

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 88,^[1]

     Infection generally came into the Houses of the Citizens, by Means of their Servants, who, they were obliged to send up and down the Streets for Necessaries […] and who going necessarily thro’ the Streets into Shops, Markets, and the like, it was impossible, but that they should one way or other, meet with distempered people, who conveyed the fatal Breath into them […]

English

Etymology

From Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“sickness”), itself from the root of morior (“die”) or directly from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??.b?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??.b?d/

Adjective

morbid (comparative more morbid, superlative most morbid)

1. (originally) Of, or relating to disease. [from 1650s]
2. (by extension) Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. [from 1770s]
3. Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish
4. Grisly or gruesome.

Synonyms

• (of or relating to disease): pathological
• (unhealthy or unwholesome): sick, twisted, unhealthy, unwholesome, warped
• (suggesting the horror of death): black, ghoulish, grim, macabre
• (grisly, gruesome): bloody, disgusting, gory, grisly, gruesome, sickening

Derived terms

• morbidity
• morbidly
• morbidness

Related terms

• morbidezza
• morbilous

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “morbid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• bromid

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???bi?t/

Adjective

morbid (comparative morbider, superlative am morbidsten)

1. morbid

Declension

Derived terms

• komorbid
• Morbidität