[responsivevoice] macabre [/responsivevoice] [ muh-kah-bruh ]
The word of the day is ‘macabre’
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Eerie
2. Deathlike
3. Causing fear of death
4. Morbid
1. Hindi – Bhayankar
2. Spanish – Macabro
3. French – Macabre
4. Mandarin – Hàiréntīngwén de
1. It was like a macabre march of struggling corpses towards a distant grave.
2. For as I write doubts dance like macabre figures among my words.
3. And if these meetings had their macabre side, I hope it was hidden at least from my guests.
4. The macabre and ghostly lays did not affect him so much as the legends of the saints.
5. There was a touch of the macabre in it that rendered his flesh cold and weak.
frightening, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, lurid, morbid, spooky, weird, cadaverous, deathly, dreadful, frightful, hideous, horrible, horrid, offensive, scary, spookish, terrible, unearthly, gory, morbid, horrific
horrible, horrendous, terrifying, fearsome, shocking, appalling, loathsome, repugnant, repulsive, sickening, black, weird, unhealthy, sick etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
cheerful, happy, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, common, living, normal, unalarming, nondepressive, lovely, wonderful, energetic
Quotation:
Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.
Tippi Hedren
Social Example:
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