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[ UK /fjuːnˈi‍əɹɪə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
    funereal gloom
    hollow sepulchral tones

How To Use funereal In A Sentence

  • In the funereal chill Vassily drew up a chair and poured us both a drink.
  • Believing in literature means saying that the ghastly regime holding sway over your country is altogether insipid, compared to literature in all its funereal majesty.
  • The elder brother, a long-legged stutterer whom they called Aristón in jest, was the most funereal fellow on the planet; he suffered from acute necromania; anything connected with coffins, corpses, wakes and candles roused his enthusiasm. The Quest
  • But what concerned me was their daughter, now free of her velvet cape and revealed in a white cotton dress smocked in unfunereal red. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • This is primarily a period piece and, as you might expect from the elegiac nature of the film, the pace is appropriately funereal.
  • The dancer has also been cast in a new ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, which makes its premiere May 24, that she described as a weighty, funereal pas de deux with principle Marcelo Gomes. A Ballet Company's Summer of Youth
  • He devoted days and nights to a kind of funereal bureaucracy, inevitable even under the fire of the enemy. The New Book of Martyrs
  • When we got together I suggested it needed some New Orleans funeral music, half tongue-in-cheek, because their music is, well, you might say on the funereal side and they thought that was just ideal.
  • This is primarily a period piece and, as you might expect from the elegiac nature of the film, the pace is appropriately funereal.
  • The result could add up to a big bore, especially as director James Ivory refused to move things along at anything other than a funereal pace.
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