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

• receptive
• receptive aphasia
• receptively
• receptiveness
• receptivity
• receptor
• recess
• recessed
• recession
• recessional
• recessional march
• recessionary
• recessive
• recessive allele
• recessive gene
• recharge
• rechargeable
• recharter
• recheck
• recherché
• rechewed food
• rechristen
• recidivate
• recidivism
• recidivist