Macabre

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome: macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle Ages. See Synonyms at ghastly.
  • adj. Constituting or including a representation of death.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Representing or personifying death.
  • adj. Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
  • adj. Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly.
  • adj. Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or the allegorical dance of death.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  • Equivalent
    alarming   
    Variant
    macaber   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ghastly    grisly    gruesome    lurid    shocking    horrifying    terrifying   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abra    Sabra    abra    bobber    candelabra    clobber    jobber    robber    sabra    slobber   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gruesome    bizarre    horrify    surreal    ghoulish    wry    ironic    spooky    frighten    hilarious