- charnel, ghastly, sepulchral - 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"
Antonym: inoffensive (indirect, via offensive)
- charnel house, charnel - a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
--1 is a kind of vault, burial vault