Found 2 items, similar to Sepulchral.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sepulchral sepulchral adj 1: of or relating to a sepulchre; “sepulchral inscriptions”; “sepulchral monuments in churches” 2: 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” [syn: charnel, ghastly] 3: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; “funereal gloom”; “hollow sepulchral tones” [syn: funereal]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sepulchral Sepulchral \Se*pul"chral\, a. [L. sepulcralis: cf. F. s['e]pulcral.] 1. Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription. [1913 Webster] 2. Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice. [1913 Webster] This exaggerated dulling of the voice . . . giving what is commonly called a sepulchral tone. --H. Sweet. [1913 Webster]