macabre English

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macabre Adjective

— Representing death.

— with death or other frightful and shocking things.

— Frightful or shocking.

macabre

— adjective (= ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome) 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

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gruesome

grisly

ghastly

grim

sick

morbid

ghoulish

hideous

deathly

creepy

unspeakable

terrifying

terrible

nasty

lurid

horrible

horrendous

grotesque

gory

godawful

god-awful

fearsome

eerie

dreadful

dreaded

dread

direful

crawly

awful