sepulchral

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to a sepulchre

   Sepulchral inscriptions.

2. 2
   adj

   Suggestive of a grave or of death; gloomy; solemn.

   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.

Learned borrowing from Latin sepulcralis.

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