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macabre

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Adjective
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ma=ca=bre

CIDE DICTIONARY

macabreadj. 
  •  portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen.  [WordNet 1.5]
  •  Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or the allegorical dance of death.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

macabre, adj. grim, gruesome.

Etymology
ME f. OF macabr{eacute} perh. f. Macab{eacute} a Maccabee, with ref. to a miracle play showing the slaughter of the Maccabees

THESAURUS

macabre

appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eerie, eldritch, fearsome, fell, fiendish, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, livid, lurid, morbid, mortuary, pale, redoubtable, schrecklich, shocking, spookish, spooky, terrible, terrific, terrifying, tremendous, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird

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