Charnel (Adjective)
Meaning
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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The charnel air was thick with the stench of rotting flesh in the abandoned morgue.
- A charnel chill ran down her spine as she stumbled upon the ancient crypt.
- The charnel reek of the slaughterhouse was overpowering, even from outside its walls.
- As I explored the catacombs, the charnel darkness seemed to press in on me from all sides.
- The old battlefield still bore a charnel grimness, despite the years that had passed since the war.