- Word Combinations (adjective)
|part of speech:
||of, pertaining to, depicting, or evoking death or the horrors of death; gruesome; ghastly.
The bloody battlefield was a macabre sight.Macabre scenes in the graveyard terrified the film's audiences.American writer Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his macabre tales.
- frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, horrid, horrific, morbid, terrible
- similar words:
- dread, eerie, scary
||hideous, horrible, lurid, morbid, unearthly