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funerealfu‧ne‧re‧al /fjʊˈnɪəriəl $ -ˈnɪr-/ adjective  funerealOrigin: 1700-1800 Latin funereus, from funus; ➔ FUNERAL - The local weather was always funereal.
- Doctor Turner takes me aside to acquaint me in funereal tones with the details of a colleague's latest symptoms.
- In the funereal chill Vassily drew up a chair and poured us both a drink.
- Last weekend a funereal air wafted through its four-storey office on the Via Due Macelli.
- Night fell upon, and spread its funereal pall over, a field of blood where death held unrestrained carnival!
- Passers-by glanced sympathetically at them, unsurprised by the funereal atmosphere of the gathering.
- Smoke from a score of chain-smokers wreathed its funereal patterns.
- The atmosphere in the room was funereal.
- The New Zealanders, appropriately garbed in funereal black, arrive next week to scatter the ashes.
► Deathasphyxia, nounautopsy, nounbarrow, nounbequeath, verbbereaved, adjectivebereavement, nounbier, nounbody bag, nounbody count, nounburial, nounbury, verbcasket, nouncatacomb, nouncatafalque, nouncemetery, nouncenotaph, nouncharnel house, nounchurchyard, nouncoffin, nouncommittal, nouncondolence, nouncoroner, nouncorpse, nouncortege, nouncot death, nouncremate, verbcrematorium, nouncrib death, nouncrucifixion, nouncrucify, verbcrypt, noundeath mask, noundemise, noundeparted, adjectiveD.O.A., adjectivedrown, verbembalm, verbend, nounepitaph, nouneulogy, nounexhume, verbexpire, verbfatality, nounfuneral, nounfunerary, adjectivefunereal, adjectivegrave, noungravedigger, noungravestone, noungraveyard, nounheadstone, nounhearse, nounhospice, nouninter, verbinterment, nounmausoleum, nounmorgue, nounmortality, nounmortician, nounmortuary, nounmortuary, adjectivemourner, nounmourning, nounmummify, verbmummy, nounnecrophilia, nounobsequies, nounpall, nounpallbearer, nounpassing, nounperish, verbplot, nounprobate, nounprobate, verbpyre, nounquietus, nounremains, nounrest, verbrigor mortis, nounRIP, rise, verbsarcophagus, nounsepulchre, nounshroud, nounthrenody, nountoll, nountomb, nountombstone, nountumulus, nounundertaker, nounundertaking, nounurn, nounvault, nounwake, nounwar memorial, nounwill, nounwinding sheet, nounwreath, noun sad, slow, and suitable for a funeral: funereal music moving at a funereal pace |