necropolitan

English

Etymology

From necropolis +‎ -itan.[1]

Adjective

necropolitan (comparative more necropolitan, superlative most necropolitan)

Of or pertaining to a large cemetery or necropolis.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 467:
  Humboldt had been buried not in potter's Ffield but far out in Deathsille, New Jersey, one of those vast, necropolitan developments …

References

“necropolitan, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠‎, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-09-13.

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