Synonyms for morbific
- adjective
Most common
pathogenic infective unhealthful nosogenic unhealthy noxious
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Unhealthful
2. Unhealthy
unhealthy, noxious, unwholesome, pestiferous, noisome formal, insalubrious
Definitions
- adj. 1
That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic.
- adj. 2
Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased.
Related words
- Other spellings
- morbifical
Example sentences
- unhealthy If you don’t do more exercise, you’ll be unhealthy.
- noxious The old warehouse is no longer storing any noxious chemicals.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| morbific | falling | |
| pathogenic | steady | |
| infective | falling | |
| unhealthful | falling | |
| unhealthy | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- noxious2, noisome
- 9 letters
- unhealthy3, infective3, nosogenic
- 10 letters
- pathogenic4
- 11 letters
- unwholesome, unhealthful3, pestiferous
- 12 letters
- insalubrious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (noxious2 = 2 syllables).