MORBIDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morbidly mean? 

• MORBIDLY (adverb)
  The adverb MORBIDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a morbid manner or to a morbid degree

  Familiarity information: MORBIDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORBIDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a morbid manner or to a morbid degree

Context example:

he was morbidly fascinated by dead bodies

Pertainym:

morbid (suggesting an unhealthy mental state)

 Context examples 

Surgery performed in morbidly obese patients to help promote weight loss.

(Bariatric Surgery, NCI Thesaurus)

“He was morbidly nervous of fire, and always kept this beside him, so that he might escape by the window in case the stairs were burning.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If there be anything behind this instinct it will be valuable to trace it afterwards accurately, so I had better commence to do so, therefore— R. M. Renfield, ætat 59. Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I don't watch his eye in idleness, but because I am morbidly attracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, and whether it will be my turn to suffer, or somebody else's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)