Difference between Macabre and Grim

What is the difference between Macabre and Grim?

Macabre as an adjective is representing or personifying death while Grim as an adjective is dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding

Macabre

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: representing or personifying death obsessed with death or the gruesome ghastly

Grim

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: dismal and gloomy, cold and forbiddingrigid and unrelentingghastly or sinister

Example sentence: It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

We hope you now know whether to use Macabre or Grim in your sentence.

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