Funereal \Fu*ne"re*al\, a. [L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral.]
Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a
funereal pace. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. --Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's
distant lamps. --Longfellow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
funereal
adj : suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal
gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: sepulchral]
WordNet (r) 2.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "funereal":
Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, black, blackish, bleak,
cinerary, clouded, cloudy, dark, dark and gloomy, dark-colored,
darkish, darksome, depressing, depressive, dirgelike,
disheartening, dismal, doleful, drear, drearisome, dreary, dusk,
dusky, epitaphic, exequial, feral, funebrial, funebrious,
funebrous, funeral, funerary, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, grave,
gray, grievous, grim, ill-lighted, ill-lit, lowering, lugubrious,
melancholy, morose, mortuary, mournful, necrological, nigrescent,
obituary, obsequial, oppressive, overcast, sad, saturnine,
sepulchral, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sorrowful, stormy,
swart, swarthy, triste, unhappy, weariful, wearisome, weary,
woeful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
sepulchral
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