English Dictionary

macabre

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌməˈkɑː.bɹə/

形容詞

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

日本語の意味

死を象徴する、または死に関連している / 死への執着または死に取り憑かれている状態 / ぞっとさせる、凄惨で恐ろしい

The macabre procession moved through the foggy streets, its skeletal figures bowed as if in mourning.

死を擬人化した行列が霧の立ちこめる通りを進み、骸骨の姿の人々は喪に服したようにうなだれていた。

意味（1）

Representing or personifying death.

There are four fundamental figures. One is a man measuring and comparing his world[…] In front of him is a macabre figure, a cadaver ready to be dissected. This symbolizes man serving mankind. The third figure is the scientist, the man who makes use of the information gathered in the first two fields of mensurable science.

意味（2）

Obsessed with death or the gruesome.

Indeed, in the 1854 draft of Tristan he planned to have Parzival visit the dying knight, and both operas display the same macabre obsession with bloody gore and festering wounds.

意味（3）

Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life.

more macabre （ comparative ）

most macabre （ superlative ）