funereal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial

   Funereal gloom.

2. 2
   adj

   Of or relating to a funeral.

   From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

From Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus + -al.

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