1. Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
   "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
   - ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, sick

See also: alarming

Encyclopedia: Macabre

• sweetmeat
• sweetness
• sweetness and light
• sweetpea
• sweetshop
• sweetsop
• sweetsop tree
• sweetwood bark
• swell
• swell box
• swell up
• swelled
• swelled head
• swellhead
• swellheaded
• swelling
• swelter
• sweltering
• sweltry
• swept
• sweptback
• sweptwing
• Swertia
• Swertia perennia
• Swertia speciosa