26984 words

morbidly

2 definitions • 4 examples
1
in a way that shows too much interest in unpleasant subjects, especially death:

Examples:

You don't want to spend your life morbidly thinking about your old age and death.
The TV audience were morbidly delighted to find there were people worse off than they were.
2
in a way relates to or is caused by disease:

Examples:

Any kind of surgery on morbidly obese patients can be dangerous.
About 15 million Americans are morbidly obese.

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