词为我用 - sepulchral

词汇释义

sepulchral  TEM8  GRE

UK  /səˈpʌl.krəl/ US  /səˈpʌl.krəl/

1. adj, Something that is sepulchral is serious or sad and rather frightening.阴郁的，阴沉的，非常恐怖的

2. adj, A sepulchral place is dark, quiet, and empty.阴森的，空寂的

外刊例句

1. Sung by Gillian Anderson, The Sandman’s melody is exquisite, but its mood is pretty sepulchral.(The Guardian)

2. But for the scratchings of a hungry animal in a bin, the air was still, the chamber sepulchral.(The Guardian)

3. Eventually, one of the artist’s production assistants leads bewildered visitors through sepulchral underground chambers with raw brick walls and arched ceilings once used to shelter kegs of beer.(Wall Street Journal)

4. Her picture, included here, shows the cactus against “a sepulchral forest of ghost trees.”(Wall Street Journal)

5. The closeness of the lobby to the memorial imposed a special obligation on Mr. Maki and his client, Silverstein Properties, to create a space that was respectful without being sepulchral.(New York Times)

6. He took his time in the sepulchral shadows and with the body.(The Verge)

7. In Birmingham, the sepulchral skies posed more threat to that record than Pakistan’s cricketers.(New York Times)

8. By the official starting time, the light was already sepulchral and shortly after the rain started, with no let-up until mid-afternoon.(The Guardian)

9. Chatting ceased and a sepulchral silence fell, riders locked into individual battles with gravity.(The Guardian)

10. Even the light, sepulchral for most of the afternoon so that the floodlights were on and casting shadows, appeared to brighten dramatically.(The Guardian)

11. Salem all but vanished not long after releasing its debut album in 2010 — until this week, when it reappeared with a cryptic 40-minute mixtape and now this sepulchral but surprisingly legible song.(New York Times)

12. So perhaps it’s finally the moment for Manhattan audiences to embrace the sepulchral title character of “The Woman in Black,” which opened on Thursday in the Club Car bar at the McKittrick Hotel.(New York Times)

词汇搭配

sepulchral mood, sky, place, forest

词汇来源

1610s, "pertaining to a burial or place of burial," from Latin sepulcralis "of a tomb, sepulchral," from sepulcrum (see sepulchre) + -al (1). Transferred sense of "gloomy" is from 1711. Related: Sepulchrally.

近义词

gloomy, melancholy, bleak, dismal, cloudy, sullen

反义词

blithe, buoyant, jocund, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful,encouraging, hopeful, optimistic

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