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• a  of or relating to a sepulchre
  sepulchral inscriptions
  sepulchral monuments in churches
• s  gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
  the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
• s  suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
  hollow sepulchral tones

• That gives Tetro the stateliness of silent films, just as the use of glistening or sepulchral black-and-white brings some of the glamour of classic Hollywood.
• In the next dozen years they would collaborate on two more shorts and five sepulchral features, including Head Against the Walls and Eyes Without a Face.
• Cohen wrapped his sepulchral baritone around songs of betrayal and loss that shivered with the bruised romantic's gift of inexhaustible awe.

• charnel
• ghastly
• funereal

News & Articles

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• Ireland needs dose of American 'can do' optimism
  There seems to be a deep sepulchral gloom about in Ireland, especially in the media, where the worst traits of negativity are flourishing. Brian Cowen’s visit to America this week was a case in point.
  June 29, 2013 - Irish Central

Quotes

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• Ron Rosenbaum in CBS News
  It's this sepulchral, tomblike, windowless, granite, sandstone bulk that you can't miss. And I lived next to it,says Rosenbaum. "I had passed it all the time. And during the initiation rites, you could hear strange cries and whispers...