Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a burial vault or a receptacle for sacred relics.
- adj. Suggestive of the grave; funereal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a sepulcher or tomb; connected with burial or the grave; erected on a grave or to the memory of the dead: as, a sepulchral stone or statue.
- Suggestive of a sepulcher or tomb.
- Gloomy; funereal; solemn.
Wiktionary
- adj. Suggestive of a grave
- adj. Hollow and deep.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead
- adj. Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to a sepulchre
- adj. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
- adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
Etymologies
- From Latin sepulcralis (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She laid the still white form beside those that had gone before,' quoth Bobby, in sepulchral tone.”
The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize
“I am the census-taker Time,' I boomed in sepulchral tones.”
“Kiss my fluffy face!" said the Doctor in sepulchral tones.”
“Many artists exercised their imagination in both fields; in some specific fields such as sepulchral iconog - raphy, cooperation between religious and humanistic symbolism was common.”
“The little girl's eyes were shining; the very thought of that other ghost's "sepulchral" tones gave her a thrill down her back and lifted her out of herself.”
“Feeling dizzy, she sank down on the edge of the berth, keeping away from his outstretched body, and pulling the curtains close, so that he and she were shut into a kind of sepulchral twilight.”
“You understand, my lord, I said this in hollow tones -- in what I may almost term a sepulchral voice. ”
“Of greatest concern to me was a certain unmistakable foetor—that same dusty, sepulchral stench from my dream!”
“Moans of a sepulchral timbre drifted out of the dark, and we advanced into the pitchy recess.”
“Red herrings matches in an envelope slide under the door; food orders echo from a sepulchral dumb waiter don't move us.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sepulchral’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 330 more...
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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January 2012
bloviate, pastiche, apparat, facile, paroxysm, pique, bedfellow, pedigree, tutelage, protege, protégé, retroactive and 196 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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This Boy's Life list 2
treacly, sepulchral, unutterable, malicious, vigilance, Aryan, lackey, plausible, emaciated, cavernous, perspicacity, scabrous and 13 more...
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Poe
dark descriptors
sepulchral, unutterable, decrepitude, abjection, abasement, lugubrious, moribund, recrudescence, prevaricator, doppelgänger, ululation, crepuscular and 13 more...
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ancient signs
ouroboros, calypso, la sirene, Medusa, chthonic, aureole, colophon, succubus, peri, homunculus, zephyr, numinous and 56 more...
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Garbiage
word trash
parapluie, brobdingnagian, plié, segue, laconic, pastoral, phthisis, belly, synecdoche, apotheosis, sepulchral, mollification and 40 more...
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Heart of Darkness
words collected reading Heart of Darkness
abject, tenebrous, obsequiously, precipice, craven, candour, sepulchral, languid
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Les Misérables
A selection of words from the epic by Victor Hugo
perquisites, dispensations, execrate, spikenard, fireplaace, effeminate foppery, delaine, hoarfrost, lackadaisicalness, ort, geldings, milch and 103 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
Tweets
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Next, listen to the "St. Anne" fugue by Bach (BWV 552). It's a triple fugue, where the first strain is God, the second is Jesus, and the third is the Holy Spirit. The second strain represents Jesus' incarnation on earth and is for manuals alone, without the sepulchral pedal tones. For a great article on it, see http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=17-08-014-v which discusses the connection between the music and the views of Arius and St. Athanasius.
Facebook posting by Evan Klein at 11:18pm June 2 Jun 4, 2009
pinckney2007 "Some thought the vessel could not live through the night, and it seemed less dreadful to stand out in the midst of the wild tempest and see the peril that threatened than to be shut up in the sepulchral cabins, under the dim lamps, and imagine the horrors that were abroad on the ocean." IO, in Ch. 7, "Gibraltor." Dec 7, 2008