macabre

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˌməˈkɑː.bɹə/|/ˌməˈkɑː.bə/    美 /məˈkɑb/|/ˌməˈkɑ.bɹə/|/ˌməˈkɑ.bɚ/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.
  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.
  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.

词形变化

more macabre comparative most macabre superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
danse macabre macabrely macabreness

词源

Borrowed from French macabre, whose etymology is uncertain. Possibly from the term danse macabre, most commonly believed to be from corruption of the biblical name Maccabees; compare Latin Chorea Machabaeorum.
Another theory derives the French term (through Spanish macabro) from Arabic مَقَابِر (maqābir, “cemeteries”), plural of مَقْبَرَة (maqbara) or مَقْبُرَة (maqbura).
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