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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
- Example: "ghastly wounds"
- Example: "the grim aftermath of the bombing"
- Example: "the grim task of burying the victims"
- Example: "a grisly murder"
- Example: "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"
- Example: "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"
- Example: "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
[syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

macabre \macabre\ (m[.a]*k[aum]"b[~e]r) 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.]

   Syn: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or
      the allegorical dance of death.
      [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

macabre
    adj 1: 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" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome,
           macabre, sick]