morbidly
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7.9
- adverb
- /ˈmɔrbɪdli/
:
morbosamente
- General, I would appreciate it if you wouldn't talk morbidly around my daughter.
- morbidly obese
I was reading morbidly curious if you've read that.
- I was reading morbidly curious if you've read that.
- It's called Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks.
Examples
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The morbidly curious onlookers watching as if it were a game.
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The children giggled, perhaps morbidly entertained by the ghost stories being told around the campfire.
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I do not focus morbidly on death, but I do think of it daily.
Blog text (9) -
Man, your mix is morbidly sad, kid.
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As she walked down the hall, she morbidly tried to guess which window Rebecca had leaped from.
Fiction book (1991) -
That's what makes the recent dustup about Henry Gee so bizarre and (to me) morbidly fascinating.
Blog text (7) -
We peer morbidly into the vortex of industrialism's early nosedive into the abyss.
Academic text (2002) -
He has a morbidly fascination with horror films that depict graphic violence.
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She often spoke morbidly about death, reflecting her unhealthy interest in tragic history.
Synonyms
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9.3
In a cruel way that shows pleasure at other people's pain
Antonyms
How Morbid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Morbidly comes from an old Latin word, morbus, meaning 'disease', and the adjective morbid once meant 'sick'. So to be morbidly curious is like having a 'sick' or unhealthy interest in death or other unpleasant things.