Macabre

Antonyms for macabre:

unalarming.

Synonyms for macabre:

Sense 1

frightful.

Sense 2

lurid, morbid.

Sense 3

hideous, horrible.

Sense 4

horrid, unwholesome.

Sense 5

unhealthy.

Other synonyms and related words:

forbidding, horrible, hideous, unbalanced, horrendous, dismal, disconsolate, black, nauseated, stern, shocking, dark, lurid, terrible, nightmarish, sorry, appalling, unappeasable, horrid, awful, dreadful, mad, nightmare, frightful, sick, terrific, nauseous, offensive, relentless, horrific, inexorable, crazy, wan, unwholesome, queasy, sepulchral, ill, mordant, dour, gloomy, charnel, atrocious, unhealthy, morbid, pallid, unforgiving, monstrous, blue, pale, unrelenting, horrifying.

eerie; deathlike (adjective)

grim, terrible, grisly, offensive, horrid, dreadful, ghastly, morbid, horrible, hideous, gruesome, lurid, frightful.

fearful (adjective)

horrendous.

frightening (adjective)

nightmarish.

grisly (adjective)

grisly.

Sense 2 (noun)

unhealthy, unwholesome, morbid.

Sense 3 (noun)

horrible, lurid, horrid, hideous.

grotesque (noun)

horrible, offensive.

macabre (noun)

ghastly, grisly, alarming, grim, gruesome.

revolting (verb)

offensive.

Usage examples for macabre:

• Abstract and concrete meet and take hands or jostle, too much as skeleton and lady might in a danse Macabre. - "Robert Browning", Edward Dowden.