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morbid
adj
    1. Displaying an unhealthy interest in unpleasant things, especially death.
      Thesaurus: unhealthy, sick, sickly, gruesome, grisly, horrible, grim, horrid, hideous, ghastly, macabre, dreadful.
    2. medicine.
      Relating to, or indicating the presence of, disease.
      Thesaurus: diseased, sickly, ailing, unhealthy, pathological, infected, malignant; Antonym: healthy.
Derivative: morbidity
    A morbid state.
    The proportion of diseased people in a community.
Derivative: morbidly
adverb
    Derivative: morbidness
    noun
      Etymology: 17c: from Latin morbus disease.



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