Vocabulary
Macabre
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death.
Urdu meaning
خوفناک، ڈراﺅنا، بھیانک
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- One of thebombers had his face blown off, leaving it as a macabre death mask for Musharraf to publish in his memoirs.
- Ever since India and Pakistan joined the macabre nuclear club in the 1990s, their strategies have hung, like fluttering pennants,forallto see.
- Here, a man accused of overseeing the murder of over 39,000 Palestinians in Gaza, was receiving a rapturous applause from the representatives of the American people, though many Democrats stayed away from this macabre performance.
- Meanwhile, the US champions the macabre fiction of `humanitarian pauses`.
Synonyms
gruesome, grisly, grim, gory, morbid, ghastly, unearthly, lurid, grotesque, hideous
Antonyms
agreeable, appealing, attractive, delectable, delicious
Curator example
“a macabre series of murders”
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