sepulchral
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin sepulcralis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]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
[edit]Translations
[edit]suggestive of grave
|
hollow and deep