Usually means: Morbid fascination with death, decay.
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  1. macabre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. macabre: Merriam-Webster
  3. macabre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. macabre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. macabre: Collins English Dictionary
  6. macabre: Vocabulary.com
  7. Macabre, macabre: Wordnik
  8. macabre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. macabre: Wiktionary
  10. macabre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. macabre: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. macabre: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. macabre: Dictionary.com
  14. macabre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. macabre: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Macabre (album), Macabre (band), Macabre (disambiguation), Macabre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. macabre: Rhymezone
  18. macabre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. macabre: FreeDictionary.org
  20. macabre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Macabre: The Word Detective
  22. macabre: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. macabre: Legal dictionary

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  1. macabre: Encyclopedia

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  1. macabre: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. macabre: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Representing or personifying death.
adjective:  Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
adjective:  Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

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