morbid

Modifies a noun

• fascination: With a morbid fascination, people flocked to Kirkwall from outer areas to catch a glimpse of the devastation.
• obesity: Authors ' conclusions The benefits of surgery for morbid obesity can be classified into three main groups.
• curiosity: Each new piece of film fed our morbid curiosity, our deep rooted desire to see what actually happened.
• obsession: From certain quarters there was what seemed to me like an almost morbid obsession with Christ's death.
• dread: Fincher permeates most every scene with an unsettling sense of morbid dread, instilling unease in even the most placid of scenes.
• anatomy: His first appointment was as demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: When Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary, I believe he thought chiefly of a somewhat morbid realism; and behold!
• almost: From certain quarters there was what seemed to me like an almost morbid obsession with Christ's death.
• rather: He combined this shrewdness with deeply held, and perhaps rather morbid religious feelings.
• too: That's just too morbid for me, how about The Pilgrimage: all included dead or alive.
• so: What has happened to make me so morbid today?
• very: I mean, for example, 35 was very morbid.

Used with adjective complement

• sound: What might sound merely morbid is actually strangely beautiful.
• seem: In the end, Gorak indulges in a couple of ironic plot points that seem unnecessarily morbid.
• get: Doreen showed up now and then and would get morbid about Denver midway through her second drink.
• become: When we become morbid, it is frequently because we are too immersed in our selves.
• grow: It's set in a far future solar system and seems to be growing more morbid by the day.
• feel: Neither am I feeling morbid, or in any way morose.