adj
Meaning 1
Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sepulchral
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Suggestive of a grave or of death; gloomy; solemn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Having a hollow and deep sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
of or relating to a sepulchre
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- sepulchral inscriptions
- sepulchral monuments in churches
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- funereal gloom
- hollow sepulchral tones
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: funereal
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
- ghastly shrieks
- the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: charnel, ghastly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin sepeliō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *-tlom Proto-Italic *-klom Latin -crum Latin sepulcrum Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin sepulcralislbor. English sepulchral Learned borrowing from Latin sepulcralis.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: гробовен (groboven) — suggestive of grave
- Catalan: sepulcral — suggestive of grave
- Esperanto: sepulteja — suggestive of grave
- Finnish: hautamainen — suggestive of grave
- French: sépulcral — suggestive of grave
- German: Todes- — suggestive of grave
- German: Grabes- — suggestive of grave
- German: Toten- — suggestive of grave
- Latin: sepulcralis — suggestive of grave
- Polish: cmentarny — suggestive of grave
- Polish: grobowy — suggestive of grave
- Polish: nagrobkowy — suggestive of grave
- Polish: sepulkralny — suggestive of grave
- Spanish: sepulcral — suggestive of grave
- Swedish: gravlik — suggestive of grave
- Bulgarian: гробовен (groboven) — hollow and deep
- German: düster — hollow and deep
- German: Grabes- — hollow and deep
- Polish: grobowy — hollow and deep
- Spanish: sepulcral — hollow and deep