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macabre

/məˈkɑb/

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What does macabre mean?

adjective

  1. Representing or personifying death.
  2. Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
  3. Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

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IPA pronunciation

/məˈkɑb/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˌməˈkɑ.bɹə//ˌməˈkɑ.bəɹ/
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Gounod had conducted the Funeral March of a Marionnette; Reyer, his beautiful overture to Siguar; Saint Saens, the Danse Macabre and a Reverie Orientale; Massenet, an unpublished Hungarian march; Guiraud, his Carnaval; Delibes, the Valse Lente from Sylvia and the Pizzicati from Coppelia.
Gaston LerouxThe Phantom of the OperaProject Gutenberg ebook #175