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Macabre

/məˈkɑːbə(ɹ)/

Representing or personifying death.

📖 Definitions of "Macabre"

adjective
  1. 1

    Representing or personifying death.

  2. 2

    Obsessed with death or the gruesome.

  3. 3

    Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

🔄 Synonyms of "Macabre"

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

WordDefinition
grimnounDismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
alarmingCausing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.
grislynounHorrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
ghastlyHorrifyingly shocking.
gruesomeRepellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Macabre"

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WordDefinition
ghastlyHorrifyingly shocking.
grislynounHorrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
gruesomeRepellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.
grimnounDismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
alarmingCausing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.
ghoulishFascinated by corpses; morbid.
horrificCausing horror; horrifying.
horrifyingTending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
appallingExtremely unfavorable; terrible.
horriblenounCausing horror; terrible; shocking.
eeryAlternative spelling of eerie. [Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.]
heinousBad, evil or villainous.
sinisterEvil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
eerienounInspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
travestynounAn 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.
macaberesquenounmacabre
macabresquemacabre
deathsomeHaving the characteristic of death; alluding to or suggesting death
deathfulInvolving the danger of death; fatal, deadly.

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