macabre

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ma·ca·bre /məˈkɑːbrə, -bə $ -brə, -bər/ adjective  UNPLEASANTvery strange and unpleasant and connected with death or with people being seriously hurt 恐怖的，可怕的，骇人的；与死亡[严重事故]有关的 a macabre tale 令人毛骨悚然的故事 a macabre sense of humour 恐怖的幽默感

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macabre• These drawings of the dead are moving rather than macabre.• Politics, blocked, has turned macabre.• Here sea, death and physical passion combine in a macabre and concrete image.• Although the spectacle had macabre entertainment value, a fundamental question got buried in the slime: Did Carey finagle the books?• And though this may sound macabre, I did enjoy last night once it got going.• a macabre sense of humor• Dimitri's enquiry didn't seem in the least strange or macabre to me.• It adds a macabre touch to the bones from the hospital.• Just as macabre was the 8 for 28 collapse at Leeds.Origin macabre (1400-1500) French (danse) macabre “dance of death”, from earlier (danse de) Macabré, perhaps from Medieval Latin chorea Maccabaeorum “dance of the Maccabees”, a representation of the killing of the Maccabees, a Jewish family of Bible times

ma·ca·bre adjectiveChineseSyllable  

and death connected very Corpus with and unpleasant strange

macabre
ma‧ca‧bre /məˈkɑːbrə, -bə $ -brə, -bər/ adjectivevery strange and unpleasant and connected with death or with people being seriously hurt:
    a macabre tale
    a macabre sense of humour

ma·cabreBrE /məˈkɑːbrə/ 🔊NAmE /məˈkɑːbrə/ 🔊 adjectiveunpleasant and strange because connected with death and frightening things 可怕的，恐怖的（尤指与死亡等相联系的） SYN ghoulish, grisly ◆a macabre tale/joke/ritual 令人毛骨悚然的故事／笑话／仪式