sepulchral

英[sɪ'pʌlkr(ə)l] 美[sə'pʌlkrəl]

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"

3. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial;

"funereal gloom"

"hollow sepulchral tones"