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sepulchral - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'sepulchral' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sepulchral [ a.]
- 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.
- Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.

Meaning of 'sepulchral' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sepulchral [ a]
Meaning (1):
- of or relating to a sepulchre
Example in sentence:
  • sepulchral inscriptions;
  • sepulchral monuments in churches
2 . sepulchral [ s]
Meaning (2):
- gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
Example in sentence:
  • a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones;
  • ghastly shrieks;
  • the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
Meaning (3):
- suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
Example in sentence:
  • funereal gloom;
  • hollow sepulchral tones

Nearby Words:

sepal sepaled sepaline sepalody sepaloid sepalous separability separable separate separated

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