sepulchral

  • (a) of or relating to a sepulchre
    • sepulchral inscriptions
    • sepulchral monuments in churches
  • (s) 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
    charnel, ghastly,
  • (s) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
    • funereal gloom
    • hollow sepulchral tones
    funereal,

Synonyms

charnel ghastly funereal

Words of close approximity

sepulchre