sepulchral : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sepulchral	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sepulchral
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sepulchral adj of or relating to a sepulchre; "sepulchral inscriptions"; "sepulchral monuments in churches" 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" Synonym(s): charnel, ghastly, sepulchral suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" Synonym(s): funereal, sepulchral
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sepulchral \Sepul"chral\, a. [L. sepulcralis: cf. F. s[82]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.