adjective 1. having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death

2. Suggesting the horror of death and decay.

3. Macabre is a term applied to a type of artistic or literary works, characterized by a grim or ghastly atmosphere. In these works, there is an emphasis on the details and symbols of death

4. Tending to produce horror in a beholder .

5. a medieval dance or procession in which a skeleton representing death leads other skeletons or living persons to the grave -- called also dance of death