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Morbidly

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mor·bid  (môrbd)
adj.
1.
a. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased.
b. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: "He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses" (Edgar Allan Poe).
2. Characterized by preoccupation with unwholesome thoughts or feelings: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest.
3. Gruesome; grisly.
[Latin morbidus, diseased, from morbus, disease; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]
morbid·ly adv.
morbid·ness n.
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Adv.1.morbidly - in a morbid manner or to a morbid degree; "he was morbidly fascinated by dead bodies"


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