Morbidly

Definition: Morbidly

Morbidly

Adverb

1. In a morbid manner or to a morbid degree; "he was morbidly fascinated by dead bodies".

Date "morbidly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Crosswords: Morbidly

English words defined with "morbidly": brooding, broody ♦ Canine appetite, contemplative ♦ Hyperaesthesia ♦ Lethargical ♦ meditative, musing ♦ pensive, pondering ♦ reflective, ruminative ♦ valetudinarian. (references)

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Modern Usage: Morbidly

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well, your friend is morbidly obese. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Morbidly

Domain	Title
Books	Surgery for the Morbidly Obese Patient (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Morbidly

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Finally, surgical procedures to treat obesity are sometimes recommended for sleep apnea patients who are morbidly obese. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Morbidly

"Morbidly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Morbidly" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	37	56,631

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Morbidly

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "morbidly": pre-morbidly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Morbidly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
morbidly obese	143
morbidly	115
morbidly obese woman	3
morbidly obese poster woman	2
anticoagulation in morbidly obese patient	2
exercise morbidly obese	2
association morbidly obese	2
morbidly obese people picture	2
morbidly obese photo	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Morbidly

Language		Translations for "morbidly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		疾病 (Ailment, Disease, morbid). (various references)

French		maladivement. (various references)

German		morbid (degenerate, morbid), krankhaft (abnormal, chronic, diseased, ill-looking, morbid, pathological, sickly, unhealthy). (various references)

Korean		병� �으로. (various references)

Pig Latin		orbidlymay

Thai		อย่างไม่สบาย. (various references)

Turkish		marazi olarak. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Morbidly

Misspellings
	"Morbidly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: midbody, mirabili, mordbity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Morbidly"

Words rhyming with "morbidly" (pronounced 'Mor"bid*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Morbidly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-i-l-m-o-r-y"
	-2 letters: bodily, bromid, imbody, milord, morbid.
	-3 letters: blimy, broil, dimly, doily, dormy, drily, limbo, limby, moldy, myoid, roily.
	-4 letters: bird, birl, body, boil, bold, brim, brio, byrl, diol, dirl, doby, dorm, dory, drib, idly, idol, idyl, lido, limb, limo, limy, lord, lory, mild, milo, miry, modi, moil, mold, moly, odyl, oily, oldy, orby, rimy.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-i-l-m-o-r-y"
	+2 letters: formidably.
	+4 letters: imponderably.
	+5 letters: formidability.
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