morbid
adjective
suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc..
morbidly
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a word derived from
morbid.
Example Sentences
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Pixar’s WALL-E, an animated take on life in the 29th century, depicts morbidly overweight humans living a seemingly utopian existence in space, with all their needs met by AI-powered robots.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
And even at my skinniest, I am still morbidly obese.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
It felt like a morbidly appropriate souvenir of this day.
From Salon ● May 7, 2024
Even the morbidly chauvinist NME succumbed, calling Ditto "the coolest person in rock".
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
And this touches me, somehow, even more than the presumptive lie about his assets: that this place he has described as so morbidly dysfunctional could amount to a real and compelling human community.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
