Funereal

Definition: Funereal

Funereal

Adjective

1. Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones".

Date "funereal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references)

Etymology: Funereal \Fu*ne"re*al\, adjective. [Latin expression funereus, from fentus funeral.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Funereal

Synonym: sepulchral (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dejection	Adjective: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.
Interment	Adjective: burried. Verb: burial, funereal, funebrial; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary; elegiac; necroscopic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Funereal

English words defined with "funereal": Defunctive, Dirgeful ♦ Epicedial, Exequial, Exequious ♦ Funebrial. (references)

Specialty definitions using "funereal": Dances ♦ Flowers and Trees ♦ symbol. (references)

Etymologies containing "funereal": Defunctive ♦ Exequious. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Governor and his image in baroque Brazil : the funereal eulogy of Afonso Furtado de Castro do Rio de Mendonça (reference) An Egyptian Reading Book for Beginners: Being a Series of Historical, Funereal, Moral, Religious, and Mythological Texts Printed in Hieroglyphic Cha (reference) Mummy Funereal Rites and Customs In Ancien (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Longfellow	What seem to us but dim funereal tapers, may be heaven's distant lamps.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He was a long, thin, livid man, perfectly funereal.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SYMBOL, n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" -- things which having no longer any utility continue to exist because we have inherited the tendency to make them; as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. They were once real urns holding the ashes of the dead. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
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"Funereal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Funereal" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	40	54,274

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "funereal": funereal-sounding.
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Language		Translations for "funereal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i varrimit, i trishtuar (blue, cheerless, comfortless, dark, disappointed, disappointing, doleful, down, dreary, elegiac, gloomy, grievous, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, miserable, mopish, mournful, pensive, rueful, sad, tristful, unhappy, vapoury, wailful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful, woesome), i përmortshëm (feral, funeral, mortuary). (various references)

Arabic		‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏مأتمي (funeral, macabre), ‏جنازي. (various references)

Bulgarian		траурен (lugubrious, mournful, mourning, sable), гробовен (sepulchral), погребален (funeral, funerary, mortuary, obituary, obsequial, sepulchral). (various references)

Czech		pohřební (mortuary, sepulchral). (various references)

French		triste (funeral), lugubre. (various references)

German		traurig (baleful, balefully, blue, cheerless, dismal, doleful, gaunt, lugubrious, lugubriously, miserable, mournful, mournfully, notorious, pathetic, plaintively, sad, sadly, sorrowful, sorrowfully, sorry, unhappy, upsetting). (various references)

Greek		νεκρικόσ (deathlike, deathly), πένθιμοσ (elegiac, funeral, lugubrious, mournful, mourning, sable). (various references)

Hebrew		ע�'ום (bleak, cheerless, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dusky, gloomy, morose, mournful, rueful, sorrowful, sullen), אבל (but, desolate, however, indeed, lamenter, mourner, mournful, only). (various references)

Hungarian		temetési (sepulchral), halottas, síri (sepulchral). (various references)

Italian		funereo (feral, funeral, lugubrious), funerario (funeral, funerary), funebre (funeral, funerary, mournful). (various references)

Pig Latin		unerealfay

Portuguese		funeral (exequies, obsequies), funéreo, fúnebre (funeral, lugubrious, macabre, mortuary, mournful), tétrico (lurid), sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), sepulcral (sepulchral), lúgubre (dire, doleful, dreary, eery, gaunt, lugubrious, lurid, mournful, murky, sable). (various references)

Romanian		funebru (dismal, feral, funeral, gloomy, sepulchral). (various references)

Russian		траурный (mournful, sable, sorrowful), похоронный (feral, funeral, funerary, mortuary, obituary, obsequial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tužan (disappointing, dismal, distressed, distressful, distressing, doleful, dumpish, elegiac, grievous, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, mirthless, plaintive, sad, tearful, unhappy, wailful, woeful, woesome), pogrebni (funeral, mortuary, obituary, obsequial, obsequious). (various references)

Spanish		fúnebre (funeral, mournful), de entierro (interment). (various references)

Swedish		sorglig (dismal, doleful, dolorous, grievous, heartbreaking, heart-breaking, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, woeful, woesome), dyster (angry, beetle-browed, black, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, darksome, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, gloomy, glum, grave, heavy, humpy, in the doldrums, lugubrious, morose, murky, sad, saturnine, sepulchral), begravnings- (sepulchral). (various references)

Turkish		kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressive, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, gloomy, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, muzzy, pitchy, sable, sad, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, waste), hüzünlü (blue, cheerless, depressing, doleful, downcast, dreary, elegiac, gloomy, glum, melancholic, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful), cenaze törenine ait (funeral). (various references)

Ukrainian		хмурий, траурний (funeral, lugubrious, sable), похоронний (exequial, feral, funeral, mortuary, obitual, obituary, obsequial, sepulchral). (various references)

Welsh		arwylaidd, angladdol (funeral). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	funebri. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "funereal": funereally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Funereal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Funebria, funebrial, Funerall, funereus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "funereal" (pronounced 'Fu*ne"re*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-n-r-u"
	-1 letter: ferulae, flaneur, frenula, funeral.
	-2 letters: earful, ferula, ferule, fueler, furane, leaner, neural, refuel, unfree, unreal, unreel.
	-3 letters: anele, enure, farle, feral, feuar, flare, fleer, frena, furan, laree, learn, lunar, ranee, refel, renal, ulnae, ulnar, ureal.
	-4 letters: alee, alef, earl, earn, elan, erne, fane, fare, farl, faun, feal, fear, feel, fere, fern, flan, flea, flee.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-l-n-r-u"
	+2 letters: enfleurage, funereally, refundable.
	+3 letters: carefulness, enfleurages, fearfulness, fraudulence, tearfulness.
	+4 letters: artfulnesses, dreadfulness, dreamfulness, fraudulences, gracefulness, gratefulness, insufferable, ultrarefined, unverifiable, wearifulness.
	+5 letters: candlesnuffer, carefulnesses, fearfulnesses, harmfulnesses, masterfulness, nonrefundable, prayerfulness, regardfulness, tearfulnesses, ultrafeminine, underinflated, unenforceable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unperformable.
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