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What (who) is macabre - definition
Macabre
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THEME IN ARTWORK
MACABRE; Macabre stories
In works of art, the adjective macabre ( or ; ) means "having the quality of having a grim or [atmosphere". The macabre works to emphasize the details and symbols of death].
macabre
THEME IN ARTWORK
MACABRE; Macabre stories
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¦ adjective disturbing and horrifying because concerned with death and injury.
Origin
C19: from Fr. macabre, from Danse Macabre 'dance of death', from OFr., perh. from Macabe 'a Maccabee', with ref. to a miracle play depicting the slaughter of the Maccabees.
macabre
THEME IN ARTWORK
MACABRE; Macabre stories
You describe something such as an event or story as macabre when it is strange and horrible or upsetting, usually because it involves death or injury.
Police have made a macabre discovery...
= chilling
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Examples of use of macabre
1. This macabre arrangement will not continue indefinitely.
2. Even with this macabre and surreal scene, no one stopped.
3. Accordign to one macabre joke, the answer is yes.
4. "Non–answers, canned message, macabre." –– the Los Angeles Times.
5. To many people this probably sounds macabre that I should keep my wife alive like this.