Definitions for macabre

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick(adj)

    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

    "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

Wiktionary

  1. macabre(Adjective)

    Representing or personifying death.

  2. macabre(Adjective)

    Obsessed with death or the gruesome.

  3. macabre(Adjective)

    Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.


Translations for macabre

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

macabre(adjective)

weird, unearthly or horrible

macabre horror stories.

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