Macabre - disturbing because concerned with death; morbid or gruesome

PRONOUNCE MACABRE

(Prononunced ma-kaa-bruh)

REMEMBER MEANING OF MACABRE

To remember the definition of the word macabre, use the following mnemonic:

Ma carved (macabre) cows in half for a Damien Hurst exhibition. Is it all about death?

Examples of macabre in a sentence

Since even the scariest of horror movies only made her laugh, Sofia supposed that she had a macabre sense of humour.

While David has a talent for pulling macabre pranks, it can get a little bothersome when he doesn’t limit them to Halloween.

Among the other evils committed under Hitler’s regime were the macabre experiments performed on prisoners.