nnoun.artifacta vault or building where corpses or bones are depositedSynset:charnel house
Hypernyms:burial vault vault
Inherited Hypernyms:charnel housevaultburial chamberchamberenclosureareastructureartifactwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:charnel housevaultburial chambergravetopographic pointpointlocationobjectphysical entityentity
adj satadj.allgruesomely indicative of death or the deadSynset:ghastly sepulchral
Examples:- a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
- ghastly shrieks
- the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
Antonyms:inoffensive
Derivationally Related Form:ghastliness
Inherited Hypernyms:charnel
Similar to:offensive