Textual thesaurus for "macabre"

(adj) gruesome, grim, grisly, ghastly, sick

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