sepulchral
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Etymology
From Latin sepulcralis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sepulchral (comparative more sepulchral, superlative most sepulchral)
- Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.
- Suggestive of a grave or of death; gloomy; solemn.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:
- He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there - putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on.
- 1999, Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 6:
- Over and over I found myself visiting homes where the predominant feeling was sepulchral, dusty, and deserted […]
- Having a hollow and deep sound.
- 1995, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts, →ISBN, page 367:
- 'The Master of Krikkit,' said Slartibartfast again, and if his breathing had been sepulchral before, this time he sounded like someone in Hades with bronchitis.
Related terms
Translations
suggestive of grave
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See also
- Heroon
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