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
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
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
