Definition of "morbid" []

• Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased. (adjective)
• Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: "He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses” ( Edgar Allan Poe). (adjective)
• Characterized by preoccupation with unwholesome thoughts or feelings: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest. (adjective)
• Gruesome; grisly. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term morbid obesity is used to describe people whose body mass index (BMI) -- a measure of weight in relation to height -- is 40 or higher."
• ""Even in the hangar at the Kennedy Space Center, the debris from the crew cabin is laid out separately in a private area, and officials have promised to not disclose what they characterize as morbid details.""
• "I have got what you call morbid just in consequence of the sophistry by which I persuaded myself that wrong could be right."