The pile of bodies under the bridge was such a macabre sight.
Source: tatoeba (4028919)
Macabre
//məˈkɑb//
Synonyms for "macabre" (72 found)
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Synonyms
4 entriesderived
3 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 22 languages.
Basque
1 entries- makabro adj (representing or personifying death)
Bulgarian
1 entries- зловещ adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Catalan
1 entries- macabre adj (representing or personifying death)
Dutch
1 entries- macaber adj (representing or personifying death)
Esperanto
2 entries- makabra adj (representing or personifying death)
- terura adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Finnish
4 entries- kaamea adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- kalmankatkuinen adj (representing or personifying death)
- kammottava adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- makaaberi adj (representing or personifying death)
French
4 entries- effrayant adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- funeste adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- funèbre adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- gothique adj (obsessed with death)
German
2 entries- grausig adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- makaber adj (representing or personifying death)
Greek
2 entries- μακάβριος adj (representing or personifying death)
- μακάβριος adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Irish
1 entries- adhfhuafar adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Korean
2 entries- 섬뜩하다 adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- 소름 끼치다 adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Māori
4 entries- mōrikarika adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- rihariha adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- weriweri adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- wetiweti adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- makaber adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- makaber adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Polish
1 entries- makabryczny adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Portuguese
1 entries- macabro adj (representing or personifying death)
Romanian
3 entries- macabru adj (representing or personifying death)
- macabru adj (obsessed with death)
- îngrozitor adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Romansch
1 entries- macaber adj (representing or personifying death)
Russian
1 entries- макабрический adj (representing or personifying death)
Spanish
4 entries- funesto adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- fúnebre adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- gótico adj (obsessed with death)
- horrendo adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
Swedish
1 entries- makaber adj (representing or personifying death)
Turkish
3 entries- dehşetengiz adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- korkunç adj (ghastly, shocking, terrifying)
- mevtapesent adj (obsessed with death)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
How can you watch such macabre movies without having nightmares?
Source: tatoeba (4028922)
He enjoys engaging in macabre activities such as dissecting animal corpses and stalking people on the street at night.
Source: tatoeba (4028931)
Anne Rice, writer of the supernatural and the macabre, has died. She was 80.
Source: tatoeba (10558403)
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