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morbidly obese

morbidly obese adjective: obese to an extent that is life-threatening.

Adjective

morbidly obese (comparative more morbidly obese, superlative most morbidly obese)

  1. Obese to an extent that is life-threatening.
    • Which raises an interesting question: Is Trump actually morbidly obese?2020 May 19, Chris Cillizza, “Nancy Pelosi called President Trump ‘morbidly obese.’ Is he?”, in CNN

Forms of morbidly obese

comparativemore morbidly obese
superlativemost morbidly obese

Questions about morbidly obese

What does morbidly obese mean?
Morbidly obese means obese to an extent that is life-threatening.
What part of speech is morbidly obese?
Morbidly obese is an adjective.

Words near morbidly obese in the dictionary

  1. morbidize
  2. morbidized
  3. morbidizes
  4. morbidizing
  5. morbidly
  6. morbidly obese
  7. morbidness
  8. morbidnesses
  9. morbidostat
  10. morbidostats
  11. Morbier

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