morbidly

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.

---

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

---

mor′bid·ly adv.

mor′bid·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 morbidemorbid 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