morbidly
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mor·bid
(môr′bĭd)adj.
1. Given to or characterized by unwholesome thoughts or feelings, especially of death or disease: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest.
2.
a. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased: morbid changes in tissues.
b. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: a morbid fear of heights.
mor′bid·ly adv.
mor′bid·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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morbidly
[ˈmɔːrbɪdli] 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.
There's something morbidly fascinating about the thought → Cette pensée tient de la fascination 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