macabre
Adjective Satellite
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"
- "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
Adj
- Representing or personifying death.
- Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
- Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
Adjective
- Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with death or injury.
Examples
- The score after her MACABRE play left my opponent’s Words With Friends board utterly destroyed.
Origin / Etymology
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).
Synonyms
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, sick, horrifying, shocking, terrifying
Scrabble Score: 13
macabre: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmacabre: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
macabre: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary