'Funereal' definitions:
Definition of 'funereal'
From: WordNet
adjective
Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: funereal, sepulchral]
Definition of 'Funereal'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. --Longfellow. -- {Fu*ne"re*al*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'funereal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Acheronian,
- Acherontic,
- black,
- blackish,
- bleak,
- Cimmerian,
- 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,
- Stygian,
- swart,
- swarthy,
- triste,
- unhappy,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- woeful