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Definition of "funereal" []

  • Of or relating to a funeral. (adjective)
  • Appropriate for or suggestive of a funeral; mournful: funereal gloom. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "funereal" in a sentence
  • "The readings of the first nocturn of Tenebrae are from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and have, in our rite, a special and distinctive "funereal" chant."
  • "Morale is low or even "funereal," according to some people who speak regularly with employees of the companies."
  • "He devoted days and nights to a kind of funereal bureaucracy, inevitable even under the fire of the enemy."