sepulchral
adjective
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Other Words from sepulchral
also -ˈpu̇l- \
adverb
Synonyms & Antonyms for sepulchral
Synonyms
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
Antonyms
bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny
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Examples of sepulchral in a Sentence
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Her elderly father, a Herr Doktor who seems to have come down in the world, lives in sepulchral hotels. — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, "New Books," 19 Aug. 2019 Rarely will the aria be heard in a more fittingly sepulchral setting than when the hour-long opera, composed in the 1680s, is performed this week in the catacombs of Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery. — Washington Post, "Purcell opera performed in cemetery catacombs," 4 June 2019 Michael falls off the wagon — a moment signaled by an action-freezing, sepulchral spotlight, courtesy of the lighting designer Hugh Vanstone — and initiates an especially cruel, soul-baring party game. — Ben Brantley, New York Times, "Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Enter Sniping in ‘The Boys in the Band’," 31 May 2018 The one-acts are scattered among three sepulchral rooms, and attendants with flashlights guide you from one to the next. — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, "Review: Beckett’s Absurdist House of Horrors, in Hell’s Kitchen," 25 Sep. 2017 According to the company’s engineering director Philip Koehn, the new Phantom is 10 percent quieter at highway cruising speeds than its already-sepulchral predecessor. — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, "2018 Rolls-Royce Phantom: The Eighth Generation of Ultimate Luxury," 28 July 2017 In Birmingham, the sepulchral skies posed more threat to that record than Pakistan’s cricketers. — Tim Wigmore, New York Times, "India, Pakistan and Something Deeper Than Cricket," 4 June 2017 At the doleful close of the first movement, the double basses reached down to their sepulchral low-C extensions, a sound that didn’t exist during Mozart’s lifetime. — Russell Platt, The New Yorker, "Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner," 3 Feb. 2017 There’s something not just tight-lipped but a bit sepulchral about the proposal. — Christopher Hawthorne, latimes.com, "Design for Obama library and museum off to surprisingly somber start," 11 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sepulchral.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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