Grisly vs Macabre - What's the difference?
grisly | macabre | Synonyms |
horrifyingly repellent; terrifying, gruesome
Representing or personifying death.
* 1941 , George C. Booth, Mexico's School-made Society , page 106
Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
* 1993 , Theodore Ziolkowski, "Wagner's Parsifal'' between Mystery and Mummery", ''in'' Werner Sollors (ed.), ''The Return of Thematic Criticism , pages 274-275
Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
* 1927 [1938], , Introduction
Grisly is a synonym of macabre.
As adjectives the difference between grisly and macabre
is that grisly is horrifyingly repellent; terrifying, gruesome while macabre is representing or personifying death.grisly
English
Adjective
(er)- The photos of the killings depict a grisly scene.
See also
* gristly * grizzlymacabre
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- 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.