unpleasant and strange because connected with death and frightening things synonym ghoulish, grisly可怕的,恐怖的(尤指与死亡等相联系的) a macabre tale/joke/ritual 令人毛骨悚然的故事/笑话/仪式
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMacabre is used with these nouns:- tale
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French macabre, from Danse Macabre ‘dance of death’, from Old French, perhaps from Macabé ‘a Maccabee’, with reference to a miracle play depicting the slaughter of the Maccabees.