funereal
/fjuːˈnɪərɪəl
/adjective
Having the mournful, sombre character appropriate to a funeral: Erika was moving at a funereal pace...
- This is primarily a period piece and, as you might expect from the elegiac nature of the film, the pace is appropriately funereal.
- Bleak, dismal, gloomy, dreary, funereal, somber: All of these adjectives could be used to describe the new album by Iceland's Sigur Ros.
- Mourning the lack of opportunities which have thus far presented themselves, the funereal hue seems appropriate in the current Scottish footballing climate.
Synonyms
solemn, sombre, grave, serious;
gloomy, dismal, doleful, dreary, sad, cheerless, joyless, bleak, melancholy, miserable, morose, sorrowful, morbid, maudlin, dark, depressing, woeful, lugubrious, sepulchral
literary dolorous
rare exequial, funebrial
dark, black, drab
Derivatives
funereally
- The two duets with Vedder are the strongest of too many funereally morose dirges that bind the album.
- Typical are the album's three separate versions of Robert's title composition, a funereally paced piece that perfectly sets the tone; melancholy and brooding yet strangely optimistic.
- Black-car motorcades cruise funereally through deserted streets, bringing presidents and prime ministers to the Congress Center, where the VIPs are meeting, or the Hilton Hotel.
Origin
Early 18th century: from Latin funereus (from funus, funer- 'funeral') + -al.
Rhymes
- make the papers
- make the running
- make the welkin ring
- make time
- Maketon
- make tracks (for)
- make up
- make-up artist
- make-up bag
- make up for lost time
- make-up game
- make up ground
- makeup-less
- make-up man
- make up one's mind
- make-up remover
- make up (the) leeway
- make up to
- make use of
- make water
- make waves
- make way
- makeweight
- make whoopee
- make with