sepulchral meaning and definition

SEPULCHRAL adjective

Definition of sepulchral (adjective)

1. of or relating to a sepulchre
   • "sepulchral inscriptions"; "sepulchral monuments in churches"
2. 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"
   • synonyms: charnel, ghastly
3. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
   • "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
   • synonyms: funereal