funereal
English
Alternative forms
- funeral (uncommon)
Etymology
From Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus + -al.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fjuːˈnɪəɹɪ.əl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Adjective
funereal (comparative more funereal, superlative most funereal)
- Of or relating to a funeral.
- Synonym: funerary
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:
- 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.
- 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 474:
- Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.
- Similar to or befitting the mood or elements of a funeral: slow; black colors; formal; dignified or solemn.
- 1900, William Beckford, The History of the Caliph Vathek, page 171:
- "A funereal gloom prevailed over the whole scene."
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- There was something menacing and uncomfortable in the funereal stillness, in the muffled, subtle trickle of distant brooks, and in the crowding green peaks and black-wooded precipices that choked the narrow horizon.
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Translations
relating to a funeral
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