Macabre and Scary

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Macabre

Macabre adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.
Usage example: a macabre movie about animated corpses
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Scary is a synonym for macabre in eerie topic. In some cases you can use "Scary" instead an adjective "Macabre", when it comes to topics like spooky, creepy.

Scary

Scary adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: a scary movie that gave the child nightmares for weeks afterwards
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Macabre is a synonym for scary in spooky topic. You can use "Macabre" instead an adjective "Scary", if it concerns topics such as creepy.
Nearby Words: scare, scar, scared, scaring

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  • Mind Screw / Film The bizarre lighting, scary soundtrack, eerie camera angles, buckets of blood, and macabre scenery, though...
    Source: Mind Screw / Film
  • Creator / Matt Groening Bart tells a scary story, "Dark Stanley", in the episode "Yokel Chords", which is also animated in a different, more macabre style.
    Source: Creator / Matt Groening
  • Stephen King, in his study of the horror genre Danse Macabre, suggests that horror literature is inherently conservative, simply because horror is always a disruption of the world as it is — and it's shown to be scary and bad.
    Source: Reactionary Fantasy
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