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Macabre   /məkˈɑbrə/  /məkˈɑbər/   Listen
adjective
macabre  adj.  
1.
Portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen. (Also spelled macaber)
Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid.
2.
Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or the allegorical dance of death.






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"Macabre" Quotes from Famous Books



... WHARTON'S that enables her by some exquisitely right word or phrase so to illuminate a scene that you see it as though by an inspiration of your own, and feel that thus and thus did the thing in fact happen. There are episodes in Summer—for example the Fourth of July firework evening, or the wildly macabre scene of the night funeral on the mountain—that seem to me to come as near perfection in their telling as anything I am ever likely to read, and when you have enjoyed them for yourself I fancy you will be inclined to join ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 17, 1917 • Various



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