Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a funeral.
- adjective Appropriate for or suggestive of a funeral; mournful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characteristic of or suitable for a funeral; hence, mournful; dismal; lugubrious; gloomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or
relating to afuneral . - adjective Similar to a funeral, such as
dignified orsolemn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The readings of the first nocturn of Tenebrae are from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and have, in our rite, a special and distinctive "funereal" chant.
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Morale is low or even "funereal," according to some people who speak regularly with employees of the companies.
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He devoted days and nights to a kind of funereal bureaucracy, inevitable even under the fire of the enemy.
The New Book of Martyrs Georges Duhamel 1925
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Dr.maworks staff sifted through several hundred resumes and head shots provided by a New York casting clearinghouse in quest of an actor possessing the mature, "funereal" quality Hayes wanted for Dr. Rank in A Doll's House.
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Top hedge fund managers 'funereal' in midst of financial crisis
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Top hedge fund managers 'funereal' in midst of financial crisis
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My daughter and I went to a local largebox store yesterday, and the atmosphere was funereal because the HCR bill passed.
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Fanfare sounds erupt over funereal pulses broken into by choppy keyboard figures.
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The Diplo-produced Beat of My Drum hinted at her leftfield ambitions; the slower, funereal I and the heartbreaking fame parable Sticks + Stones sounded grownup, introspective and happily odd.
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As an Aussie, despite the funereal attitude of most cricket fans here, I enjoyed seeing England play the pants of our team.
The Ashes 2010-11: Barmy Army in raptures while Australia mourns 2011
valse commented on the word funereal
This word sounds a million times better than funeral
January 6, 2007
seanahan commented on the word funereal
I wonder if you could rhyme this with Israel in poetry...
January 6, 2007
kingparton commented on the word funereal
The time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet"
August 25, 2011