morbid

Meaning

Of, or relating to disease.
Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
Grisly or gruesome.

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɔː.bɪd/

From Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“sickness”), itself from the root of morī (“to die”) or directly from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).

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