marmoreal.

1. Made of marble or relating to marble as a material.

2. Resembling marble in color, smoothness, hardness, or a cold, still appearance.

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Words that belong together

• a marmoreal monument
• marmoreal columns

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Marmoreal columns framed the doorway through which the witnesses entered.

The marmoreal monument outlasted the name carved into its base.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Relational, temporal, or authenticity adjective; ordinary comparative and superlative usually not needed. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.