Macabre Synonyms and Antonyms

mə-käbrə, mə-käb, -käbər
Susceptible to or marked by preoccupation with unwholesome matters
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. morbid
  2. sick
  3. unhealthy
  4. unwholesome
Shockingly repellent
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ghastly
  2. grim
  3. grisly
  4. gruesome
  5. horrible
  6. grotesque
  7. sick
  8. deathlike
  9. dreadful
  10. eerie
  11. hideous
  12. eery
  13. horrid
  14. lurid
Antonyms:
  1. normal
  2. common
  3. living
Upsetting or horrifying by association with death or injury; gruesome:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ghastly

Words Related to Macabre

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Macabre Sentence Examples

  • Dean had no desire to know the macabre contents.

  • My taste in movies is rather dark, I enjoy mostly macabre horror films.

  • Halloween can rattle my nerves, because I am easily frightened by the macabre pranks at that time of year.

  • Even the homocide detectives were surprised by the macabre level of this crime.

  • After the increase of crime in her neighborhood, Annie began to be questioned about some of her macabre hobbies.

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