All macabre synonyms
ma·ca·bre
M m adj macabre
- spooky — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- ghoulish — strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous: a ghoulish and questionable sense of humor.
- grisly — gristly.
- morbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- weird — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- grim — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- lurid — gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- deathly — If you say that someone is deathly pale or deathly still, you are emphasizing that they are very pale or still, like a dead person.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- ghostly — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- hideous — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- scary — causing fright or alarm.
- terrible — distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
- unearthly — seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty.
- horrid — such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
- spook — Informal. a ghost; specter.