| adj. | 1. | portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; |
| 2. | Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or the allegorical |
| Adj. | 1. | macabre - shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" |