Adjective

(er)

Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

* Spenser

the ugly view of his deformed crimes

* (William Shakespeare)

O, I have passed a miserable night, / So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.

Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

Offensive]] to one's [[sensibility, sensibilities or morality.

*, chapter=12

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly , gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

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.