morbid

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased.
  2. adjective Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: "He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses” (Edgar Allan Poe).
  3. adjective Characterized by preoccupation with unwholesome thoughts or feelings: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest.
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  • More useful and less morbid might be allowing subscriptions to the Tempo (in the Trib) has a lot of neat features about the Loop.
  • Archie and Gretchen's relationship is disturbing and morbid, and Cain pushes it up a notch in the sequel, —  Ramblings on Romance Etcetera, Etcetera
  • The term morbid obesity is used to describe people whose body mass index (BMI) -- a measure of weight in relation to height -- is 40 or higher. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • For the morbid or curious, the site also maintains an Dirty or no, Runner's World has ranked Chicago fourth amongst the cite the CARA message boards as fostering a sense of community and, of course, the Lakefront for its uninterrupted footpaths. tells the July issue of Maxim that "I don't believe in gay marriages and I don't believe in being gay."
  • Far from being morbid, the cemeteries make for an intriguing and deeply affecting historical excursion. —  News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times.
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  1. Latin morbidus, diseased, from morbus, disease; see mer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French morbide = Spanish mórbido = Portuguese Italian morbido, from Latin morbidus, sickly, from morbus, disease: see morbus.
 

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