| Pronunciation: | | su'pulkrul
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- [adj] suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] of or relating to a sepulchre; "sepulchral inscriptions"; "sepulchral monuments in churches"
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| | Synonyms: | | charnel, funereal, ghastly, joyless, offensive |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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.
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