mor´bid|ly

mor´bid|ly
mor|bid «MR bihd», adjective.
1. unhealthy; not wholesome; sickly: »

morbid fancies, a morbid look. A liking for horror is morbid.

SYNONYM(S): unsound, unwholesome.
2. caused by disease; characteristic of disease; diseased: »

Cancer is a morbid growth.

3. having to do with diseased parts: »

morbid anatomy.

4. horrible; gruesome; grisly: »

the morbid details of a murder.

[< Latin morbidus < morbus disease]
mor´bid|ly, adverb.
mor´bid|ness, noun.

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