charnel, ghastly, sepulchral
(adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; “a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men’s bones”; “ghastly shrieks”; “the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
charnel (plural charnels)
A chapel attached to a mortuary.
A repository for dead bodies.
charnel (comparative more charnel, superlative most charnel)
Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
• larchen
Source: Wiktionary
Char"nel, a. Etym: [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L. carnalis. See Carnal.]
Definition: Containing the bodies of the dead. "Charnel vaults." Milton. Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.
Char"nel, n.
Definition: A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery. In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ. Byron.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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