MACABRE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of macabre in English

(Definition of macabre from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of macabre

macabre
The electric atmospherics, without flesh, frozen, cold, almost macabre, are animated by dry movements, unpitying in their stiffness in their surges and disappearances, although non-violent.
Though it may not be immediately perceived as functional, the grotesque plays a structural premonitory part in association with the macabre.
On the web, terms like haunting, macabre and harrowing are used to describe the album.
Do people lie to the canvassers as an easy (if macabre) way of getting rid of them?
All of them are foreshadowings of her tragic fate and contribute to the macabre atmosphere of the novel.
The same point could be made through less macabre means.
Instead, it ranges widely over more unusual, often macabre uses of human bodies, past and present.
At other times the premonitory value of a macabre description can be perceived only very late in the novel.
The chapter ends with a warning to parents about "verbal danger signs" such as an increase in the use of profane language, aggressive discourse, macabre content, and hate expressions.
Redon's inter pretation of the organic menace that threatens to overwhelm the saint was that of the macabre rapidly-breeding microbe.
Such solemnity is even more potent as the reference to tragic grandeur has already been preceded by a macabre reference to the "tomb-like stillness" of the place (41).
That report shows that all the alternatives to hanging are equally macabre and corrosive to a civilised society.
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It said that the alternatives to hanging were equally macabre, debasing to those who took part and corrosive of a civilised society.
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The cost of this danse macabre will mop up a goodly portion of the money bled from charitable institutions.
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Secondly, no one of his own free choice would wish to make a maiden speech on so tragic, so macabre, a subject as this.
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Translations of macabre

in Chinese (Traditional)
(與死亡或暴力有關而)恐怖的,可怕的,令人毛骨悚然的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(与死亡或暴力有关而)恐怖的,可怕的,令人毛骨悚然的…
in Spanish
macabro…
in Portuguese
macabre, macabro…
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korkunç, tüyler ürpertici, ölüm korkusu veren…
macabre…
griezelig…
strašidelný…
makaber…
mengerikan…
น่าขยะแขยง…
rùng rợn…
makabryczny…
makaber…
dahsyat dan mengerikan…
grausig, makaber…
makaber…
похмурий, жахливий…
мрачный, жуткий…
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