Associations to the word «Sepulchral»

Wiktionary

SEPULCHRAL, adjective. Suggestive of a grave
SEPULCHRAL, adjective. Hollow and deep.

Dictionary definition

SEPULCHRAL, adjective. Of or relating to a sepulchre; "sepulchral inscriptions"; "sepulchral monuments in churches".
SEPULCHRAL, adjective. 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".
SEPULCHRAL, adjective. Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats