Word Type

Noun

Adjective

The word "funeral" can be used as noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Causes

sadness

Causes Desire

dress nice

Derived Terms

Mormon funeral potatoes arrange someone's funeral cyberfuneral funeral biscuit funeral celebrant funeral director funeral doom funeral door funeral home funeral march funeral parlor funeral parlour funeral pie funeral potatoes funeral procession funeral pyre funeral rite funeral service funeral store funeral-goer funeralgoer funeralist funeralize it's one's funeral it's someone's funeral jazz funeral mass funeral nonfuneral pauper's funeral paupers' funerals postfuneral prefuneral public health funeral state funeral the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral the corpse at every funeral you'll be late for your own funeral

Etymologically Related To

funereal

Inflected/Variant Forms

funereal

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

ceremonial ceremonial occasion ceremony observance

Type Of (IsA)

ceremony

Related Terms

celebration of life cemetery funerary funereal mortuary obsequies obsequy

Related Terms

burial cemetery funerary funereal interment memorial service mortuary obsequy sermon sky burial

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.