Sepulchral

Definitions: Sepulchral

Sepulchral

Adjective

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".

Date "sepulchral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1630. (references)

Synonyms: Sepulchral

Synonyms: charnel (adj), funereal (adj), ghastly (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aphony	Croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.
Interment	Adjective: burried. Verb: burial, funereal, funebrial; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary; elegiac; necroscopic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sepulchral

English words defined with "sepulchral": charnel, Cippus ♦ funereal ♦ ghastly ♦ Tabernacle work. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sepulchral": Chech ♦ Lamps. (references)

Etymologies containing "sepulchral": tumulus. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Anatolian sepulchral stelae in Roman times (reference) Das Museum Fur Sepulkralkultur: Meditativer Ort Fur Grabeskunst = the Museum of Sepulchral Culture: A Meditative Space for Funerary Art (reference) Sepulchral House (reference) Sepulchral Monuments: Monographs (reference) The Glory of the Saxon Crosses at Sandbach, Cheshire: The Sepulchral Monument of King Egbert with Its Picture Language Explained, (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Sepulchral Feast: Sepultura Tribute (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	To the first commotion of astonishment had succeeded a sepulchral silence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sepulchral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sepulchral" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	15	90,616

Expressions using "sepulchral": sepulchral chamber ♦ sepulchral urn ♦ sepulchral vault. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "sepulchral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		varri, i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i shurdhër (deaf, unvoiced). (various references)

Arabic		‏كشيب, ‏قبري, ‏دفني. (various references)

Bulgarian		гробовен (funereal), гробен, погребален (funeral, funerary, funereal, mortuary, obituary, obsequial). (various references)

Czech		pohřební (funereal, mortuary). (various references)

Farsi		مقبره ای , گوری , حزن انگیز (Lugubrious, Tragic), ارامگاهی , دفنی . (various references)

French		sépulcral. (various references)

German		düstere (dismally, drably, duskily). (various references)

Greek		επιτάφιοσ του τάφου, επιτάφιοσ (epitaph). (various references)

Hebrew		של קבר, קו�"ר (black, cheerless, dark, dour, dun, gaunt, gloomy, gruff, morose, murky, saturnine, somber, sullen, tenebrous). (various references)

Hungarian		síri (funereal). (various references)

Italian		sepolcrale. (various references)

Manx		oaieagh (blasphemous), lhiaghtagh (monumental), groamey (depressing, depressive, ill-tempered, joyless, moody, sombre). (various references)

Pig Latin		epulchralsay

Portuguese		sepulcral (funereal). (various references)

Romanian		sepulcral, funebru (dismal, feral, funeral, funereal, gloomy), de mormânt, cavernos (cavernous, deep-sounding, hollow). (various references)

Russian		могильный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		grobni (cryptic, grave). (various references)

Spanish		sepulcral (hollow, stony). (various references)

Swedish		gravlik-, gravlik, grav-, dyster (angry, beetle-browed, black, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, darksome, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, grave, heavy, humpy, in the doldrums, lugubrious, morose, murky, sad, saturnine), begravnings- (funereal). (various references)

Turkish		mezara benzeyen, mezara ait, mezar gibi. (various references)

Ukranian		замогильний, похоронний (exequial, feral, funeral, funereal, mortuary, obitual, obituary, obsequial), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous). (various references)

Vietnamese		sầu thảm (lugubrious), bu�"n bã (dumpish, dumpy, glum, mopish, plaintive, rueful, sadly, tearful). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sepulchral": sepulchrally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sepulchral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sepolcro, sepuchral, sepuichral, sepulchar, sepulcharal, Sepulchrale, sepulchural, sepulcra, sepulcral, sepulechral. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-l-l-p-r-s-u"
	-2 letters: halluces, purchase, specular.
	-3 letters: allures, apercus, callers, capsule, carpels, cellars, chapels, clasher, clasper, cullers, eparchs, haulers, hullers, larches, laurels, lurches, parcels, parches, perusal, phallus, placers, plasher, pleural, pleuras, plurals, plusher, pullers, recalls, reclasp, recusal, scaleup, scalpel, scalper, scauper, scleral, scruple, sculler, secular, shellac, spaller, specula, spheral, upreach, upscale.
	-4 letters: alephs, allure, apercu, arches.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-l-l-p-r-s-u"
	+2 letters: sepulchrally, superhelical.
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