morbid
adjective
[ ˈmɔːbɪd ]
• characterized by an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
• "his morbid fascination with the horrors of contemporary warfare"
Similar:
ghoulish,
macabre,
unhealthy,
gruesome,
grisly,
grotesque,
ghastly,
horrible,
unwholesome,
death-obsessed,
sick,
• of the nature of or indicative of disease.
• "the treatment of morbid obesity"
Origin:
mid 17th century (in the medical sense): from Latin morbidus, from morbus ‘disease’.
