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Macabre vs Frightening - What's the difference?

macabre | frightening | Synonyms |

Macabre is a synonym of frightening.


As adjectives the difference between macabre and frightening

is that macabre is representing or personifying death while frightening is causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.

As a verb frightening is

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macabre

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Representing or personifying death.
  • * 1941 , George C. Booth, Mexico's School-made Society , page 106
    • 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.
  • 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
    • 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.
  • Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
  • * 1927 [1938], , Introduction
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (ghastly) ghastly, horrifying, shocking, terrifying

    Derived terms

    * danse macabre

    References

    Anagrams

    * English borrowed terms ----

    frightening

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
    • The frightening scientist lived in an old shack.
  • (figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.

    • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
    • The scientist was frightening the timid children.