morbidly

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.

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[Latin morbidus, diseased, from morbus, disease; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]

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morbid·ly adv.

morbid·ness n.

Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

morbidly - in a morbid manner or to a morbid degree; "he was morbidly fascinated by dead bodies"

Translations

morbidly [ˈmɔːbɪdlɪ] ADV [talk] → morbosamente, con morbo; [think] → morbosamente

morbidly [ˈmɔː^rbɪdli] adv

(= unhealthily) to be morbidly fascinating → tenir de la fascination morbide
There's something morbidly fascinating about the thought → Cette pensée tient de la fascination morbide.

(MEDICINE) morbidly obese [person] → atteint(e) d'obésité morbide
morbid obesity n → obésité f morbide

morbidly

adv to think morbidly → krankhafte or düstere or morbide (geh) → Gedanken haben; he is morbidly interested in bad crashes → er hat ein krankhaftes Interesse an schweren Unfällen; staring morbidly out of the window → trübsinnig or düster aus dem Fenster schauend; maybe I’ll be dead then, he said morbidly → vielleicht bin ich dann schon tot, sagte er düster

morbidly [ˈmɔːbɪdlɪ] adv → morbosamente

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morbidly [ˈmɔːbɪdlɪ] adv → morbosamente