sepulchral

adj 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}]