morbid
adjective/ˈmɔːbɪd/
/ˈmɔːrbɪd/
- having or expressing a strong interest in sad or unpleasant things, especially disease or death
- He had a morbid fascination with blood.
- ‘He might even die.’ ‘Don't be so morbid.’
- She watched with morbid curiosity.
- My mind was filled with morbid thoughts of death.
- I found the whole subject very morbid and unpleasant.
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- (medical) connected with disease
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the medical sense): from Latin morbidus, from morbus ‘disease’.
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