Funereal
[fjuː'nɪərɪəl]
Definition
(adj.) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; 'funereal gloom'; 'hollow sepulchral tones' .
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Definition
(a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dark, dismal, mournful, sombre, sad, woful, gloomy, lugubrious, melancholy, sepulchral, suitable to a funeral.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Lugubrious, dismal, woeful, sombre, mournful, plaintive, deathlike, solemn
ANT:Joyous, festive, ridiculous, funny, stirring, lively, farcical
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Examples
- She was the best-looking woman in the room; she made the dinner a little less funereal than the usual van der Luyden banquet. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We cut branches of the funereal trees and placed them over him, and on these again his sword. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Pile dirge on dirge; rouse the funereal chords; let the air ring with dire wailing; let wild discord rush on the wings of the wind! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was a large, dark room, furnished in a funereal manner with black horsehair, and loaded with heavy dark tables. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The gloom of the night was funereal; all nature seemed clothed in crape. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Soon the cages were covered, they had a strange funereal look. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That gig seems to me more funereal than a hearse. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The bed and chamber were so funereal and gloomy, you might have fancied, not only that Lady Crawley died in the room, but that her ghost inhabited it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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