CHARNEL as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
   Synonym(s)
   • charnel house (what does charnel house mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) charnel is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • vault (what does vault mean?)
   • burial vault (what does burial vault mean?)

CHARNEL as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
   Synonym(s)
   • ghastly (what does ghastly mean?)
   • sepulchral (what does sepulchral mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men’’s bones
   • ghastly shrieks
   • the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
   Similar To
   • offensive (what does offensive mean?)