macaberesque

macaberesque adjective: macabre.

Adjective

macaberesque (comparative more macaberesque, superlative most macaberesque)

macabre
- He has seizures of erotic and macaberesque madness. He is a sort of necrophile. He has kept a journal in which he sets forth his disease with the utmost clearness.1903, Guy de Maupassant, translated by M. Walter Dunne, A Tress of Hair
- Those plots which he prided himself on inventing are, for the most part, very weak; his people go forth one after the other, a macaberesque procession, fitter to excite melancholy than mirth […]1909, Jean Jules Jusserand, A Literary History of the English People

macaberesque (countable and uncountable, plural macaberesques)

The danse macabre, or some similar performance or imagery.
- If we can visualise this pattern of pursuit as a sort of figure-of-eight macaberesque—executed by two partners moving with the virtuosity of skilled ice-skaters—we may see how the pattern takes shape in a movement of advance and retreat.1951, Muriel Spark, Mary Shelley
- It is a rather striking piece of fantastic macaberesque, composed in paragraphs somewhat too short, after the French manner, and with an obvious straining at unusual rhythms.1928, Ferris Greenslet, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, page 60

கடுந்தோட்டி

What does macaberesque mean?: Macaberesque means macabre.
What is macaberesque in Tamil?: Macaberesque in Tamil is கடுந்தோட்டி. See Macaberesque meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is macaberesque?: Macaberesque can be an adjective or a noun.

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