| Main Entry: | mortuary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funeral home |
Synonyms: |
charnel house, crematory, funeral parlor, morgue |
| Main Entry: | boneyard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial ground |
Synonyms: |
God's acre, Golgotha, boot hill, catacomb, cemetery, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, eternal home, funerary grounds, garden, grave, graveyard, marble town, memorial park, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, polyandrium, potter's field, resting place, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | cemetery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial ground |
Synonyms: |
God's acre, Golgotha, boot hill, catacomb, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, eternal home, funerary grounds, garden, grave, graveyard, marble town, memorial park, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, polyandrium, potter's field, resting place, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | ghastly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
Synonyms: |
abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, wraithlike |
Antonyms: |
delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | lethal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly |
Synonyms: |
baleful, dangerous, deathly, destructive, devastating, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, mortuary, murderous, necrotic, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, virulent |
| Notes: | use fatal for something which has caused someone's death; use lethal for something which is capable of killing someone |
Antonyms: |
beneficial, harmless, helpful, life-giving |