macabre

Meaning

1. Representing or personifying death.
2. Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
3. Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

Synonyms

gruesome

ghastly

grisly

grim

ghoulish

morbid

sick

🤢

deathly

creepy

hideous

grotesque

horrendous

horrible

lurid

nasty

terrible

terrifying

unspeakable

awful

godawful

crawly

direful

dread

dreaded

dreadful

eerie

fearsome

god-awful

gory

Translations

macabre

macabro

makaber

macabro

macaber

grausig

horrible

macabro

griezelig

eng

μακάβριος

lugubre

macabre

épouvantable

sinistre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌməˈkɑː.bɹə/

Etymology

Cognate with Latin: Chorea Machabaeorum

In summary

Borrowed from French macabre, whose etymology is uncertain. Possibly from the term danse macabre, most commonly believed to be from corruption of the biblical name Maccabees; compare Latin Chorea Machabaeorum.
Another theory derives the French term (through Spanish macabro) from Arabic مَقَابِر (maqābir, “cemeteries”), plural of مَقْبَرَة (maqbara) or مَقْبُرَة (maqbura).

Sentences

Some of the scenes are hilarious , some depressing and some macabre .