SEPULCHRAL

funereal, sepulchral

(adjective) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; “funereal gloom”; “hollow sepulchral tones”

charnel, ghastly, sepulchral

(adjective) 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”

sepulchral

(adjective) of or relating to a sepulchre; “sepulchral inscriptions”; “sepulchral monuments in churches”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

sepulchral (comparative more sepulchral, superlative most sepulchral)

Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.

Suggestive of a grave or of death; having a hollow and deep sound.

Source: Wiktionary

Se*pul"chral, a. Etym: [L. sepulcralis: cf. F. sépulcral.]

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.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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