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.
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2. Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of
sound, especially of the voice.
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This exaggerated dulling of the voice . . . giving
what is commonly called a sepulchral tone. --H.
Sweet.
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