Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fune-real; wailing; mournful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Funereal; moaning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having the qualities of a
dirge ;moaning - adjective
funereal
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Examples
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About then a small brass band struck up a dirgeful tune, and Pan, who fancied himself a musician, listened critically.
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The lost jobs, dirgeful despair, and sometimes mean sniping over tradition and the present day value of big rooms full of journalists.
Phil Bronstein: Newspaper Disaster? It's All My Fault. I'm The One 2009
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If you had a window open anywhere in Manhattan early this morning, you could probably hear the bagpipes and the dirgeful drums.
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The only good thing was that with Easter, Lent was over and the dreadful, dirgeful songs gone with it.
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You know, the songs that think they’re deep and meaningful and moving because they’re slow and whiny and dirgeful, but in reality, they just suck.
hernesheir commented on the word dirgeful
Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for "What is the total amount of debit? --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 22, 2013
bilby commented on the word dirgeful
Less than a dirigibleful, methinks.
January 22, 2013