📖 Definitions of "Macabre"
adjective
- 1
Representing or personifying death.
- 2
Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
- 3
Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
🔄 Synonyms of "Macabre"
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Macabre"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| ghastly | Horrifyingly shocking. |
| grislynoun | Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying. |
| gruesome | Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific. |
| grimnoun | Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. |
| alarming | Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening. |
| ghoulish | Fascinated by corpses; morbid. |
| horrific | Causing horror; horrifying. |
| horrifying | Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific. |
| appalling | Extremely unfavorable; terrible. |
| horriblenoun | Causing horror; terrible; shocking. |
| eery | Alternative spelling of eerie. [Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.] |
| heinous | Bad, evil or villainous. |
| sinister | Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm. |
| eerienoun | Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird. |
| travestynoun | An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation. |
| morbid | (by extension) Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. |
| macaberesquenoun | macabre |
| macabresque | macabre |
| deathsome | Having the characteristic of death; alluding to or suggesting death |
| deathful | Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly. |
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