funereal
AdjectiveSynonyms:
sepulchral
WordNet 3.0
Adjective (1)
- suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial“funereal gloom”“hollow sepulchral tones”Synonyms: sepulchral
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Fu·ne′re·al adjective
Origin: L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral.
Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a funereal pace. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Taylor, Jeremy
What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.— Henry W. Longfellow
— Fu·ne′wb-a1′>′re·al·ly, adverb
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54