MEANING
1. Marked by an unhealthy preoccupation with death, disease, or disturbing subjects.
2. In medical language, relating to or indicating disease.
Use it for
Fixation on death, intrusive interests, unease around unhealthy attention.Reveal the direction of attention rather than labeling every funeral disturbing.
Words that belong together
- morbid curiosity
- morbid fascination
- morbid thoughts
On the page
His morbid curiosity drew him back to the burial photographs.
She dismissed the story as too morbid for the children.
The investigator recognized a morbid fascination beneath the polite questions.
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- morbid
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Not simply mournful or death-related; a separate medical sense means connected with disease. Comparative more morbid; superlative most morbid. Derived adverb morbidly.
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