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sepulchral
adjective
suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 10
- Starts with
- S
- Ends with
- L
- Contains
- EPULCHRA
- Scrabble score
- 17
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
səˈpʌlkɹəl
Meaning
Definitions
adjective
suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
“funereal gloom”
adjective
gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
“a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones”
adjective
of or relating to a sepulchre
“sepulchral inscriptions”
In context
Example Sentences
funereal gloom
hollow sepulchral tones
a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
ghastly shrieks
the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
sepulchral inscriptions
sepulchral monuments in churches
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