as in gruesome
extremely disturbing or repellent
a macabre movie about animated corpses
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of macabre
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met with Trump at the White House last month, in a macabre audience that saw Bukele joke with Trump about trans athletes and publicly refuse to return or release Abrego Garcia.
—
Samantha Riedel, Them., 19 May 2025
The end of season 2, which saw Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun try to stage a rebellion against the macabre games and the antagonistic Front Man, ended in a cliffhanger tragedy, so tension is already high going in for this final round.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 19 May 2025
As pioneers of the horror genre, Universal crafted this new world to pay homage to the spooky and macabre stories that helped get the company through the 1930s and stay in business.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
Human remains turned up in a macabre way when a scrapyard worker took a closer look at one of the junked vehicles sitting on the lot, according to investigators in North Carolina.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for macabre
Samantha Riedel, Them., 19 May 2025
The end of season 2, which saw Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun try to stage a rebellion against the macabre games and the antagonistic Front Man, ended in a cliffhanger tragedy, so tension is already high going in for this final round.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 19 May 2025
As pioneers of the horror genre, Universal crafted this new world to pay homage to the spooky and macabre stories that helped get the company through the 1930s and stay in business.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
Human remains turned up in a macabre way when a scrapyard worker took a closer look at one of the junked vehicles sitting on the lot, according to investigators in North Carolina.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for macabre
Recent Examples of Synonyms for macabre
Adjective
-
Larvae of the parasitic fly chew through flesh, transforming small nicks into big, gruesome wounds.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2025
-
The gruesome recovery comes in the wake of a gruesome February incident, when a body was found inside a suitcase floating in the East River.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2025
Adjective
-
The war has carried a horrific toll for Gazans, with many dead amid the fighting and whole neighborhoods razed to the ground.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
-
Instead of just ending on that horrific moment, the show then cuts to Abby several days earlier.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
Adjective
-
Continuing a recent pattern of face-to-furniture collisions on the talk show, the 69-year-old's head made a momentous journey plummeting toward the program's storied table at the top of Tuesday's live broadcast, after panelist Joy Behar made a shocking joke about Sean Combs.—
Joey Nolfi Published,
EW.com,
3 June 2025
-
The toll represented a shocking increase from the 20 deaths recorded in 2019.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
2 June 2025
Cite this Entry
“Macabre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/macabre. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share