Funereal

/fjuːˈnɪəɹɪ.əl/

Synonyms for "funereal" (107 found)

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Closest matches (22)

acheronian acherontic black blackish bleak cheerless cimmerian cinerary clouded cloudy darkdark and gloomydark-colored darkish darksome

Noun(6 words)

burial actionburial actionsburial practicesburial-actionburial-action siteburial-ground site

Verb(1 words)

bury the dead

Strong matches (32)

depressing depressive desolate dirgelike disheartening dismal doleful drear drearisome dreary dusk dusky epitaphic exequial feral funebrial funebrious funebrous funeral funerary

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gloomful glooming gloomy grave gray grey grievous grim hopeless

Noun(2 words)

funerary ceremonygrave site

Adjective(1 words)

grim

Related words (53)

ill-lighted ill-lit lowering lugubrious melancholy morose mortuary mournful murky necrologic necrological nigrescent obituary obsequial oppressive overcast sad saturnine sepulchral sober

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solemn somber sombre sombrous sorrowful stormy stygian sullen sunless swart swarthy tomblike tragic triste unhappy weariful wearisome weary woebegone woeful

Noun(7 words)

interring knellingmore sepultralmortuary sciencemourning sepulcheringsepulchral voice

Adjective(6 words)

mournful sepulchralsepulchral atmospheresepulchral tonesolemn somber

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

3 entries

atmosphere mood tone

More specific

5 entries

dirge like tonefuneral marchfuneral musicfuneral processionfuneral rite

Collocations

6 entries

funereal atmospherefunereal moodfunereal processionfunereal ritesfunereal silencefunereal tone

Inflections

2 entries

more funerealmost funereal

Derivations

2 entries

funerality funerally

similar

1 entries

joyless

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He has a funereal bearing.

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The whistling of the wind through the rigging sounded like funereal wailings.

Source: tatoeba (5681895)

From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

Source: wiktionary

Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.

Source: wiktionary

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