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.

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

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mor′bid·ly adv.

mor′bid·ness n.

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Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

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

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Translations

morbidly

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

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

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

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

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

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

morbidly

[ˈmɔːbɪdlɪ] adv → morbosamente

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