morbidly
Variant of morbid
morbid
Definition
mor·bid (môr′bid)
adjective
- of, having, or caused by disease; unhealthy; diseased
- resulting from or as from a diseased state of mind; esp., having or showing an unwholesome tendency to dwell on gruesome or gloomy matters
- gruesome; grisly; horrible the morbid details of a story
- of diseased parts; pathological morbid anatomy
- Rare causing disease
Etymology: L morbidus, sickly, diseased < morbus, disease < IE base *mer-, to rub, wear away, destroy > mare, Lmortarium, OIr meirb, lifeless
morbidly
Synonyms
Browse dictionary entries near morbidly
- morbidity
- morbidities
- morbid
- Moray Firth
- moray eel
- moray
- Moravian
- Moravia
- Morava
- moratory
- morbidness
- morbific
- morbifical
- morbilli
- morceau
- morceaux
- mordacious
- mordaciously
- mordacity
- mordancy
