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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sepulchral \Se*pul"chral\, adjective [L. sepulcralis: cf. F. s['e]pulcral.]
1. Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.
2. Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.
This exaggerated dulling of the voice . . . giving what is commonly called a sepulchral tone. --H. Sweet.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {charnel}, {ghastly}]
3: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: {funereal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "sepulchral": baritone, bass, cavernous, cinerary, contralto, deep, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, dirgelike, dismal, epitaphic, exequial, feral, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, grave, heavy, hollow, low, low-pitched, mortuary, mournful, necrological, obituary, obsequial, reverberant
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