macabre

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

unpleasant and strange because connected with death and frightening things: a macabre tale / joke / ritual

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

macabreEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus macabreEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

Nearby in the dictionary

lyric lyrical lyrically lyricism lyricist ly suffix m M ma MA mac Mac

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Where does this definition of macabre come from?

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Is macabre a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, macabre is tagged as adjective.

Does macabre appear elsewhere on Lughet?

Yes — macabre appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.

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