1 having or expressing a strong interest in sad or unpleasant things, especially disease or death:
He had a morbid fascination with blood. * 'He might even die.' 'Don't be so morbid.' * She watched with morbid curiosity. * My mind was filled with morbid thoughts of death.
2 (medical) connected with disease
morbidity noun [U]
morbidly adverb
