sepulchral
英 [sɪ'pʌlkr(ə)l]
美[sə'pʌlkrəl]
- adj. 阴森森的；坟墓的，丧葬的
英英释意
- 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"
