morbid
/ˈmɔːbɪd/adjective
1
- characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease病态的(尤指对于死亡和疾病等事物的不正常兴趣):
he had long held a morbid fascination with the horrors of contemporary warfare.
他长时间一直对当代战争的恐怖有一种病态的专注。
2
- Medicine of the nature of or indicative of disease【医】病的, 致病的:
the treatment of morbid obesity.
病态肥胖的治疗。
派生词
morbidity
nounmorbidly
adverbmorbidness
noun词源
mid 17th cent. (in the medical sense): from Latin morbidus, from morbus 'disease'.