sepulchral
Like a crypt
Sepulchral means relating to a sepulcher—a tomb or burial vault—and carries associations of death, darkness, and solemnity.
A sepulchral voice is deep and hollow, as if echoing from a crypt.
Sepulchral gloom suggests the cold, still atmosphere of a grave.
The word is literary and deliberately evocative: The abandoned mansion had a sepulchral silence.
Subterranean burial vault
- mausoleumMonumental building for interment
- sarcophagusCarved stone burial container
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- vaultSecure storage chamber
cemetery · necropolis · graveyard · catacomb · charnel · ossuary · epitaph · monument
Gloomily solemn in manner
- mournfulShowing or feeling grief
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
- requiemMass for the deceased
- elegiacSorrowfully commemorative
grave · somber · subdued · reverent · ceremonial · dignified · pensive · melancholy
Dark and dispiriting
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
- hauntingDisturbingly unforgettable
- shadowyObscured by darkness
dark · ghastly · deathly · morbid · funereal · somber · dreary · bleak
Empty within
- deepFar from surface
- resonantDeeply vibrating with sound
- echoingReflecting sound repeatedly
- cavernousVast and hollow
booming · reverberating · disembodied · otherworldly · intoning · sonorous · gloomy · chilling
crypt
Subterranean burial vault
- mausoleumMonumental building for interment
- sarcophagusCarved stone burial container
- burialPlacing deceased underground
vault · cemetery · necropolis · graveyard · catacomb · charnel · ossuary · epitaph · monument · chamber
funereal
Gloomily solemn in manner
elegiac · grave · somber · subdued · reverent · ceremonial · dignified · pensive · melancholy · lugubrious
gloomy
Dark and dispiriting
shadowy · dark · ghastly · deathly · morbid · funereal · somber · dreary · bleak · oppressive
hollow
Empty within
cavernous · booming · reverberating · disembodied · otherworldly · intoning · sonorous · gloomy · chilling · low
- sepulchral monumentsStructures commemorating the interred
- Holy SepulchreChrist's burial chamber