Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a funeral.
- adj. Appropriate for or suggestive of a funeral; mournful: funereal gloom.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characteristic of or suitable for a funeral; hence, mournful; dismal; lugubrious; gloomy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Dark; dismal; mournful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
Etymologies
- From Latin fūnereus, from fūnus, fūner-, funeral; see funeral.
Examples
“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.”
“Morale is low or even "funereal," according to some people who speak regularly with employees of the companies.”
“He devoted days and nights to a kind of funereal bureaucracy, inevitable even under the fire of the enemy.”
“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.”
“Top hedge fund managers 'funereal' in midst of financial crisis”
“As an Aussie, despite the funereal attitude of most cricket fans here, I enjoyed seeing England play the pants of our team.”
The Guardian: The Ashes 2010-11: Barmy Army in raptures while Australia mourns
“My daughter and I went to a local largebox store yesterday, and the atmosphere was funereal because the HCR bill passed.”
“Fanfare sounds erupt over funereal pulses broken into by choppy keyboard figures.”
“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.”
“There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings.”
Lists
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kingparton 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" Aug 25, 2011
seanahan I wonder if you could rhyme this with Israel in poetry... Jan 6, 2007
valse This word sounds a million times better than funeral Jan 5, 2007