morbidly shy
Hi there
whats meaning of :morbidly shy

Dr. Oliver Sacks was “morbidly shy,” as one of the interlocutors in this
collection notes—which may be why there were relatively few formal
interviews

Question

morbidly shy
Hi there
whats meaning of :morbidly shy

Dr. Oliver Sacks was “morbidly shy,” as one of the interlocutors in this
collection notes—which may be why there were relatively few formal
interviews

Answer

shy = scared of meeting and talking to others
morbidly = abnormally

Therefore it means he was extremely nervous about doing the interviews, and didn't do many

Answer

Adding to Chris’s good answer:  “morbid” is an adjective relating to disease, so “morbidly shy” means “so very shy that it is harmful to the person, just like a disease would be.”

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