What is the meaning of sepulchral?

adjective

  • Of or relating to a sepulchre.
    • usage: "sepulchral inscriptions"; "sepulchral monuments in churches"
  • Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.
    • usage: "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
  • Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial.
    • usage: "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
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