We study unboundedness properties of functions belonging to generalised Morrey spaces Mϕ,p(R d ) and generalised Besov-Morrey spaces N s ϕ,p,q (R d ) by means of growth envelopes. For the generalised Morrey spaces we arrive at the same three possible cases as for classical Morrey spaces Mu,p(R d ), i.e., boundedness, the Lp-behaviour or the proper Morrey behaviour for p < u, but now those cases are characterised in terms of the limit of ϕ(t) and t −d/p ϕ(t) as t → 0 + and t → ∞, respectively. For the generalised Besov-Morrey spaces the limit of t −d/p ϕ(t) as t → 0 + also plays a rôle and, once more, we are able to extend to this generalised spaces the known results for classical Besov-Morrey spaces, although some cases are not completely solved. In this context we can completely characterise the situation when N s ϕ,p,q (R d ) consists of essentially bounded functions only, and when it contains regular distributions only.