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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
morbid
mor·bid BrE [ˈmɔːbɪd] NAmE [ˈmɔːrbɪd] adjective
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
Derived Words: ↑morbidity ▪ ↑morbidly
Word Origin:
[morbid morbidity morbidly] mid 17th cent. (in the medical sense): from Latin morbidus, from morbus ‘disease’.
Example Bank:
•I found the whole subject very morbid and unpleasant.
•She watched with an almost morbid curiosity.
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