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 funereus + -al. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin fūnereus, from fūnus, fūner-, funeral; see funeral. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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
These user-created lists contain the word ‘funereal’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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-eal adj.
marmoreal, ethereal, incorporeal, arboreal, sidereal, funereal, corporeal, venereal, extracorporeal, noncorporeal, purpureal, boreal and 14 more...
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Bluraven's list
These are words that have a certain beauty about them and a gentleness on the tongue.
mellifluous, meretricious, vituperation, loquacious, auspicious, coherently, contumaciously, contumely, contumelious, perspicacity, perspicuous, obstreperous and 29 more...
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jeffreytwhitney's list
abecedarian, assonance, prolix, avuncular, baleful, borborygmus, accismus, atavism, catachresis, coruscant, callipygian, carbuncle and 117 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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known words
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antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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wanderstar's Words
superlative, mulish, mumps, catatonic, aquiline, clandestine, phantasmagoria, chryselephantine, microfiche, mutineer, reprobate, ruthless and 312 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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word list!!!!
lagniappe
syzygy, bloviate, lagniappe, laconic, condign, umbrage, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious, capitulate, glower, repast and 179 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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From Book - SAT & College Dictionary ...
ebb, exotic, immure, abeyance, panegyric, debonair, protege, dissipate, frantic, penitent, abject, edify and 871 more...
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The Unique
egoist, individualist, loner, hateful, asocial, inactive, anarchist, misanthrope, fascist, disturbed, bored, isolationist and 111 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for funereal.
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