Funereal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's


           distant lamps.                           --Longfellow.
     -- {Fu*ne"re*al*ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  funereal
       adj : suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal
             gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: {sepulchral}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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