Definitions for macabre

macabre ma·ca·bre

Spelling: [muh-kah-bruh, -kahb, - Macabre is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in macabre (aabcemr).

Definitions for macabre

adjective

  1. gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
  2. of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect.
  3. of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.

Origin of macabre

1400-50; French; compare late Middle English Macabrees daunce Middle French danse (de) Macabré, of uncertain origin; perhaps to be identified with Medieval Latin chorēa Machabaeōrum a represe

Examples for macabre

The runoff has turned into a macabre political sideshow filled with grotesque attacks and ugly accusations.

In more ways than one, the tableaux have macabre backstories.

For as I write doubts dance like macabre figures among my words.

You two seem to have similar artistic sensibilities, both very interested in the macabre.

“Life,” he emphasized above the continuous, macabre rattle of a piano.

Over the past few years, macabre signs of vampire burials have been unearthed across Europe and even in the United States.

It was like a macabre march of struggling corpses towards a distant grave.

And if these meetings had their macabre side, I hope it was hidden at least from my guests.

And in the summer months, when shootings soar, the city can be a ghoulish playground for those interested in the macabre.

It is not sufficiently realised how much there was of the "macabre" about Victor Hugo.

Word Value for macabre
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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