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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. of or relating to a sepulchre;
- Example: "sepulchral inscriptions"
- Example: "sepulchral monuments in churches"

2. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead;
- Example: "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"
- Example: "ghastly shrieks"
- Example: "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
[syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral]

3. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial;
- Example: "funereal gloom"
- Example: "hollow sepulchral tones"
[syn: funereal, sepulchral]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sepulchral \Se*pul"chral\, a. [L. sepulcralis: cf. F. s['e]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. [1913 Webster] 2. Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice. [1913 Webster] This exaggerated dulling of the voice . . . giving what is commonly called a sepulchral tone. --H. Sweet. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sepulchral adj 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" [syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral] 3: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: funereal, sepulchral]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "sepulchral": baritone, bass, cavernous, cinerary, contralto, deep, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, dirgelike, dismal, epitaphic, exequial, feral, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, grave, heavy, hollow, low, low-pitched, mortuary, mournful, necrological, obituary, obsequial, reverberant